Re: blowfish-cbc: what to save?

2012-12-15 Thread Markus Wernig
Hello everybody Sorry for asking again, but not having worked with stream ciphers before, I really have no clue ... so any hint is more than welcome. After encrypting multiple files with blowfish-cbc and distinct IV for each file, do I need to keep the IVs secret? Thanks Markus On 12/12/2012

Re: Openssl default_ca values while using HSM - LunaCA3

2012-12-15 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012, simon charles wrote: Which works but when using openssl ca routine - it is not able to find / load the keys I can't see why ca shouldn't work. I'd suggest trying a newer version of OpenSSL downloaded from the website in case it's some weird local version with a

Re: blowfish-cbc: what to save?

2012-12-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Markus Wernig liste...@wernig.net wrote: ... After encrypting multiple files with blowfish-cbc and distinct IV for each file, do I need to keep the IVs secret? It depends on your security posture. IVs are considered public parameters, so there is usually no