Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Jimmy Lantz wrote: > Hi, > started playing with Mcrypt and just wanted to ask which encryption method > makes the stronger encryption? > (I can supply the necesary keylength). > Should I go for MCRYPT_BLOWFISH or MCRYPT_TWOFISH? Or no fish at all :) > > So what do I need it for? I'm going to use it encrypting files, sizes > varies between some 100 k's and 4-5 mb's. > / Jim > > Paranoia + A system w/o users = Safe system :) I'd suggest you went for neither. Rijndael is the AES (http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/) block cypher of choice. You can take it all the way up to 256 and its a standard. Of course that can mean one of two things: it was approved either because it can be broken, or because it is infact good. How paranoid are you 8-) I don't know though how fast it is. More online at http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael/ cheers, thalis > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >