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No, it doesn't. No one should be using Blowfish for anything (except its key scheduler for bcrypt) and Blowfish is known to be slow as hell. A SHA-2 HMAC is basically identical in speed to AES-CTR. Sure, you want an HMAC on that, too, but whatever -- get a modern processor or an AES coprocessor. I guarantee this is not your performance bottleneck.



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