When I meant the author of DES and Blowfish, I was referring to Crypt::DES
and Crypt::Blowfish, the Perl modules. Pardon my mistake :)
Justin Smith wrote:
>
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Charles Daminato wrote:
>
> > Blowfish is reportedly faster, that is according to Dave Paris (the author
> > of DES and Blowfish). It's also a MUCH stronger encryption (DES can use
> > up to an 8 bit hash key, Blowfish can use a 56 bit key).
>
> Erm, Blowfish was written by Bruce Schneier; DES was written by committee
> at IBM. Plain DES can accept up a 56 bit key; Blowfish up to 448. I have
> found Blowfish to be noticably faster than DES on 80586 and up processors.
>
> -jds
--Charles Daminato OpenSRS Technical Operations chuck@opensrs.org
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