Blowfish

From CryptoDox, The Online Encyclopedia on Cryptography and Information Security

Blowfish is a symmetric block cipher developed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier. It was designed as a replacement for DES. Blowfish is not patented and is available royalty free. It uses a 64-bit block cipher with the key length varying from 32 bits to 448 bits.

Software

Blowfish is available in a large number of encryption products. A comprehensive list is available at the Blowfish website.

Some other implementations are mentioned below:

• C++ Implementation of Blowfish at CodeProject
• Perl Implementation of Blowfish
• JavaScript implementation of Blowfish
• Java Implementation of Blowfish

External Links

• Blowfish Home Page
• Blowfish at Wikipedia