Posted by veg_all on 12/18/71 11:50

How easy is it to find the keyif you know parts of the encrypted data
are equal to common words like name, email, etc.

I am using blowfish to encrpyt my client data on the server. My fear
is if someone breaks into the server they could examine the source
code and quickly tell which parts of the encrypted data correspond to
certain commonly used strings . So given that knowledge would they
easily
be able to crack it?

When security sites publish times it takes to crack the key of
encrypted data, does that assume the crackers already know what the
data should say?

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