Blowfish

Summary

Blowfish is a Feistel cipher^[1]. Blowfish ranks in the top 8% of feistel_cipher entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (243 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Blowfish's image is recorded as Blowfish structure.svg^[3].
• Blowfish's image is recorded as Blowfish Feistel function (en).svg^[4].
• Blowfish's instance of is recorded as Feistel cipher^[5].
• Blowfish's designed by is recorded as Bruce Schneier^[6].
• Blowfish's Commons category is recorded as Blowfish (cipher)^[7].
• Blowfish's publication date is recorded as +1993-00-00T00:00:00Z^[8].
• Blowfish's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/018zx^[9].
• Blowfish's official website is recorded as https://www.schneier.com/academic/blowfish/^[10].
• Blowfish's described by source is recorded as An Implementation of the Blowfish Cryptosystem^[11].
• Blowfish's described by source is recorded as Performance Evaluation of DES and Blowfish Algorithms^[12].
• Blowfish's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/blowfish^[13].
• Blowfish's block size is recorded as {'unit': 'Q8805', 'amount': '+64'}^[14].
• Blowfish's LC and MARC vocabularies ID is recorded as preservation/inhibitorType/blo^[15].
• Blowfish's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777464982^[16].
• Blowfish's ComputerLanguage.com definition is recorded as Blowfish^[17].

Body

Designation and Status

Blowfish's instance of is recorded as Feistel cipher^[5].

Why It Matters

Blowfish ranks in the top 8% of feistel_cipher entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (243 views/month).^[2] Blowfish has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[18] Blowfish is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[19]