Common Backup Terms Explained

Blowfish

Question: What does Blowfish mean?
Answer: A fast and secure cryptography method that applies a cryptographic key and algorithm to 64-bit blocks of data. Key lengths in Blowfish vary between 32 and 448 bits. Blowfish technology is unpatented and available free for anyone to use. Bruce Schneier designed Blowfish in 1993 as an alternative to DES.


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