Path: nntp.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: Blowfish reliability Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:11:40 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: <105u41t$qnll$1@dont-email.me> References: <20250715.155447.eeb4ce0a@yamn.paranoici.org> <1056h0u$a0n8$1@dont-email.me> <105trl7$pf43$1@dont-email.me> <105u3j6$qkjp$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:11:42 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="407c0e302e3b691b4db51b48d4670994"; logging-data="876213"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18OzkSNn+oZ+MyzDA8ssqxmII2DyuIqDXw=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Rkuue0F2zN45I4CXlmMG8qYXBEw= In-Reply-To: <105u3j6$qkjp$2@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US On 7/24/2025 1:03 PM, Rich wrote: > Chax Plore wrote: >> >> Someone rescaled Blowfish to 128-bit blocks: >> >> https://alexpukall.github.io/blowfish2/blowfish2-gcc.txt >> >> But the memory print of this version is monstrous. > > Can you quantify "monstrous"? Just how big is that? Big enough to make people say this is a scary part in a horror movie? Say dead space? Well, I am jesting here. Not sure how to quantify "monstrous"... Sigh. ;^o