Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> writes:

>The 'details' mentioned above is at http://www.schneier.com/blowfish-bug.txt,
>and here's the crux of Morgan's report:
>
>    [bfinit] chokes whenever the most significant bit
>    of key[j] is a '1'.  For example, if key[j]=3D0x80,
>    key[j], a signed char, is sign extended to 0xffffff80
>    before it is ORed with data....

When I saw Solar's post I actually wondered whether it was this bug,
propagated through the use of that BF implementation.

Peter.
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