Re: The importance of IVs

From: Paul Rubin (//phr.cx_at_NOSPAM.invalid)
Date: 08/27/05 

Date: 27 Aug 2005 14:14:25 -0700

"mobius30" <mobius30@hushmail.com> writes:
> Well, I guess I'm kind of old-school then... Seriously though, all
> jokes aside, question: Has Blowfish with a 448-bit key every been
> brute forced? Even with known plain text?

No. There is a class of known weak keys for reduced-round variants.

> Agreed. I've seen several apps (there are several references to apps
> on Schneier's web site). But I agree, I'm not sure if any are in VB
> .NET. You may ask "why re-invent the wheel?" but I'm just trying to
> learn something new and accomplish something new (at least new to me).

Always a good thing to do.