Re:Bruce should write about himself (Score 2)

Actually, Bruce recommends 3DES over Blowfish or Twofish or any other block cipher, citing the fact that DES has been around for so long and still no major weaknesses have been found. In his comment in the Cryptogram that you refer to, he uses Twofish as an example of one of the fastest block ciphers, which it is. He makes no claims about its security. And I don't know exactly how long Twofish has been around, but I know it's been longer than 4 months. As another reader pointed out, it's been around at least since the AES candidates were announced in August of 1998, and I very clearly remember reading about Twofish and the fact that Bruce was planning on submitting it in mid '97.
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