Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish? part 3

Ah it would be a good idea to use the hash as a checksum- especially if you encrypt in ECB On Wednesday 22 May 2002 01:30 am, Jimmy Lantz wrote: > >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 > > It helps :) > I have been looking into Blowfish with cbc mode :) > If I use SHA-1 it's still no way to dehash it during decryption of the > file, so I fail to see the use of Hashing in fileencryption. > Could someone enlighten me? > / Jim