Blowfish is an encryption algorithm that can be used as a replacement for the DES or IDEA algorithms. Blowfish was designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier as an alternative to existing encryption algorithms. Designed with 32-bit instruction processors in mind, it is significantly faster than DES. Since ...
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Can one efficiently iterate valid bcrypt hash output values?
bcrypt is an intentionally slow hash algorithm. In my last protocol idea, I wanted to use it to expand a password and then only transfer the bcrypt-hashed password.
An efficient attack on this would ...
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Blowfish: hex digits of pi used for s-boxes?
Preface: here is the official site for the Blowfish algorithm:
http://www.schneier.com/blowfish.html
The Blowfish algorithm uses an s-box, which consists of hex digits of pi (found here: ...
