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What is blowfish?

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What is blowfish?..

Answer / Kumud Bharti

Blowfish is a symmetric-key block cipher that operates on 64-bit blocks of plaintext and has a key length of 32, 44, or 64 bits. It was designed by Bruce Schneier in 1993 as a replacement for the older DES (Data Encryption Standard) algorithm.

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