Re: Blowfish 448 bit mode

On Jun 23, 1:44 pm, Kristian Gjøsteen <kristiag+n...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
d-fan  <rafel.co...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We are using
openssl cbc blowfish.  We need to make sure that we are in 448 bit
mode.

Why not look at the documentation?

Anyway, it looks to me as if there's a function BF_set_key that takes
a variable length key as input. Give it a 448 bit key and I would expect
everything to be ok.

By the way, a 448 bit key is huge. Why are you using such a big key?
And why aren't you using AES?

--
Kristian Gjøsteen

I am using the 56 character key. I am assuming that there are 8 bits
in a byte which equal 448 bit. Is this all there is to setting up
Blowfish to a 448 Bit mode? This was never clear from the
documentation, which is part of the part of the problem with the
documentation. I don't want to be an encryption expert. I want to
use the encryption technology and move on to the next part of the
solution.
.

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