Weak keys in Blowfish revisited

From: David (david_sorg_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: 30 May 2004 21:15:30 -0700

If I do pick one of these weak keys at random (the 1 in 2^88 keys),
can somebody detect that a weak key was used? If the attacker didn't
have the ability to launch a chosen plaintext or chosen ciphertext
attack, would the encryption still be secure?

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