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Answer by Steffen Ullrich for Why are application/services still using...

Is it still secure to keep using the more-than-two-decades-old BlowfishAES (Rijndael) is from 1998 while Blowfish from 1993, i.e. only 5 years older. Which means the age of an algorithm does not say...

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Answer by AdHominem for Why are application/services still using outdated...

You could ask this question with hundreds of encryptions. Why is Windows 10 using SHA1, which has been convincingly broken since ages? And despite MD5 has been proven not to be safe as well, many...

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Why are application/services still using outdated Blowfish encryption? Is it...

For example, CrashPlan, an online backup service, is using 448-bit Blowfish to encrypt its backup files (only enterprise product line has the ability to choose using AES-256). According to Blowfish's...

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