Re: Blowfish Security Question

From: Guy Macon (http://www.guymacon.com)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 07:12:35 -0700

Don <gunnut123456@yahoo.com> says...

>If he doesn't *know* that a weak key was used (he has no access to the
>S Boxes or the F Function), but he correctly assumes that a weak key
>was used, could he still reduce the amount of work from a brute force?

If I don't *know* that your password is the name of a common fruit,
but I correctly assume that the name of a common fruit was used,
would that reduce the amount of work from a brute force search of all
possible passwords?

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