[PATCH] Limit and document Blowfish key lengths to 8-576 bits

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue Apr 23 17:16:43 CEST 2019


On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 18:38, jussi.kivilinna at iki.fi said:

> gcry_cipher_get_algo_keylen as existing users might depend it to stay
> fixed to 128bits.

Yes, this is the case.  We can't change that.  The variable keylength is
anyway very specific to Blowfish and dies not justify a new interface.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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