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in thread Making keys for Crypt::Blowfish?

AFAIK, prime number factorization has little to do with symmetric encryption algorithms. you are correct when it comes to asymmetric ciphers (e.g. RSA, DSA), which are indeed vulnerable to attack based on the fact that the public and private keys are tied to each other by their relationship to a particular, large prime; but since Blowfish is a symmetric block cipher, it is not susceptible to attacks based on primes.
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RE: RE: (atl: running with scissors) RE: RE: Making keys for Crypt::Blowfish?
by Mushy (Scribe) on Aug 21, 2000 at 04:59 UTC
    So I went ahead and did some searches. If someone wants to read about the current state of art in breaking keys for blowfish they can refer to http://www.counterpane.com/blowfish.html http://www.ii.uib.no/~larsr/bc.html Pretty safe :-)