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

Hi, I believe that twofish has been successfully broken, so use blowfish instead. Typically, for encrypting files you will use an algorithm like blowfish in cbc mode (as opposed to ebc mode) but I don't know if Mcrypt supports this. Also, when creating the hash of the file, it is probably best to use SHA-1 instead of MD5, as there appears to be some concern with MD5 over it's compression function. HTH JH -----Original Message----- From: Jimmy Lantz [mailto:jimmy.lantz@lusidor.com] Sent: 21 May 2002 17:28 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish? 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 :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php