Description of a new variable-length key, 64-bit block cipher (Blowfish)

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 809 LNCS, Issue , 1994, Pages 191-204

  Schneier, Bruce ^a  

^a Counterpane Systems ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SECURITY OF DATA;

64-BIT BLOCK CIPHERS; BLOCK SIZES; ENCRYPTION FUNCTION; FEISTEL NETWORKS; SECRET KEY; VARIABLE LENGTH;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84953635000     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-58108-1_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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