Crypto@S.M.S wrote:
> Johan Wevers wrote:
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>> Joseph Ashwood <ashwood@msn.com> wrote:
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>>> But my statement was never that Blowfish is weak,
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>> OK, a misinterpretaton from the previous poster I assume.
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>>> my statement was that Blowfish has some minor attacks and is not
>>> considered among the state-of-the-art ciphers.
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>> As is stated in another reply, what matters for ciphers is trust, not
>> modernness. Personally I still prefer IDEA.
>>
>
> I agree. Trust comes over time.
> How do you feel about 3IDEA or triple IDEA?
I did indicate I do use it.

Even with it's long key capabilities I wouldn't trust it with nuclear
secrets, but it's good enough that I use it. I just indicated it might
be broken by someone if they wanted to bad enough. It is a good cypher.

Winged