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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Blowfish reliability
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:07:48 -0000 (UTC)
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Anonymous <nobody@yamn.paranoici.org> wrote:
>   Is this blog post significant? 
> <https://hatchjs.com/cryptographydeprecationwarning-blowfish-has-been-deprecated/>

The major significance is this sentence fragment from the first 
paragraph:

    "and should not be used for new applications."

Don't start a new project and pick Blowfish as the cipher.