RE: [PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?
| From: | Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos | Date: | Tue, 21 May 2002 20:46:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish? | ||
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On Tue, 21 May 2002, Ray Hunter wrote:
> MD5 is not that secure compared to blowfish or twofish or the other
> types of encryption available with mcrypt...
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> Thanks,
>
> Ray Hunter
How does MD5 relate to encrypting the file? It's just used as a hash function.
--thalis
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> 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?
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> What about MD5?
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> 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 :)
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