Sujet : Re: Blowfish reliability
De : running_man (at) *nospam* writeable.com (The Running Man)
Groupes : sci.cryptDate : 16. Jul 2025, 00:00:00
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On 16/07/2025 00:07 Rich <
rich@example.invalid> wrote:
Anonymous <nobody@yamn.paranoici.org> wrote:
Is this blog post significant?
<https://hatchjs.com/cryptographydeprecationwarning-blowfish-has-been-deprecated/>
The major significance is this sentence fragment from the first
paragraph:
"and should not be used for new applications."
Don't start a new project and pick Blowfish as the cipher.
I can't conjure up any application which uses Blowfish, except
maybe older versions of TrueCrypt and E4M.