RE: [PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?

From: Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 20:43:28 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?
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MD5 is not that secure compared to blowfish or twofish or the other types of encryption available with mcrypt... Thanks, Ray Hunter -----Original Message----- From: Javier [mailto:javier@leeloo.mine.nu] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 2:43 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 What about MD5? 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 :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (MingW32) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjzqsWUACgkQNcG5oyVditt1ZgCdHrRHjk/Pvb8xfJFZyXBa2/SR rGUAn3+5uV6YdDDWGmtz4ZxEYlYJV/57 =c0Rt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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