Re: blowfish cryptographic hash function

From: Seth Arnold (sarnoldat_private)
Date: Fri Aug 16 2002 - 12:11:01 PDT

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    On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 04:00:48PM -0400, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:
    > Forgive me one other question; since blowfish output uses non-printable
    > characters (including nul, I do believe), I assume you're converting
    > them to printable (for easy storage and use in flat files or databases)?
    > If so, how do you think this will impact the number of collisions? 
    
    This will have no effect whatsoever. 0xdeadbeef is the same, stored in
    binary or in ascii. :)
    
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