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No, it doesn't. No one should be using Blowfish for anything (except its key scheduler for bcrypt) and Blowfish is known to be slow as hell. A SHA-2 HMAC is bas
by Locke1689 14y ago
No, it doesn't. No one should be using Blowfish for anything (except its key scheduler for bcrypt) and Blowfish is known to be slow as hell. A SHA-2 HMAC is basically identical in speed to AES-CTR. Sure, you want an HMAC on that, too, but whatever -- get a modern processor or an AES coprocessor. I guarantee this is not your performance bottleneck.