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Blowfish in practice
The algorithm
Weakness and successors
Overview
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- Block sizes
- 64 bits
- Designers
- Bruce Schneier
- First published
- 1993
- Key sizes
- 32–448 bits
- Rounds
- 16
- Structure
- Feistel network
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Overview
- Symmetric-key Symmetric-key algorithm
- Block cipher
- Bruce Schneier
- Cryptanalysis
- Twofish
- DES Data Encryption Standard
- Patents Patent
- Public domain
- S-boxes S-box
- Key schedule
The algorithm
- Block size Block size (cryptography)
- Key length
- Feistel cipher
- CAST-128
- Modulo Modular arithmetic
- Hexadecimal
- Pi
- Nothing up my sleeve number
Blowfish in practice
- Key Key (cryptography)
- Hash function
- Password
- OpenBSD
- Dictionary attacks Dictionary attack
- Key stretching
- Memory footprint
- RAM Random Access Memory
- Laptop computers
- Embedded systems
- Smartcards Smartcard
- Bcrypt
- Password hashing function Cryptographic hash function
Weakness and successors
- Birthday attacks Birthday attack
- HTTPS
- GnuPG
- Known-plaintext attacks Known-plaintext attack
- FreePascal
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Blowfish (cipher)
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Important terminology
blowfish key block algorithm schneier encryption s-boxes use used size 64-bit attacks bruce keys twofish bits uses attack many p-array
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Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blowfish (cipher) | Block sizes | 64 bits | 1.00 | infobox |
| Blowfish (cipher) | Designers | Bruce Schneier | 1.00 | infobox |
| Blowfish (cipher) | First published | 1993 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Blowfish (cipher) | Key sizes | 32–448 bits | 1.00 | infobox |
| Blowfish (cipher) | Rounds | 16 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Blowfish (cipher) | Structure | Feistel network | 1.00 | infobox |
| Blowfish (cipher) | Successors | Twofish | 1.00 | infobox |
| early smartcards.Blowfish was one of the first secure block ciphers not subject to any patents | instance of | though it does prevent use in the smallest embedded systems | 0.80 | text |
| therefore freely available for anyone to use | instance of | though it does prevent use in the smallest embedded systems | 0.80 | text |
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