Re: Blowfish encryption key length

2009-05-20 Thread Ivan Voras
Kelly Jones wrote: > I want to use a random Blowfish key to encrypt files, so I did this: > > dd if=/dev/random of=mykey.bf count=100 bs=100 > > to create a 10K byte mykey.bf file. I can now encrypt foo.txt by doing: > > openssl enc -bf -pass file:mykey.bf -in foo.txt > foo.txt.encrypted > > Ho

Blowfish encryption key length

2009-05-19 Thread Kelly Jones
I want to use a random Blowfish key to encrypt files, so I did this: dd if=/dev/random of=mykey.bf count=100 bs=100 to create a 10K byte mykey.bf file. I can now encrypt foo.txt by doing: openssl enc -bf -pass file:mykey.bf -in foo.txt > foo.txt.encrypted However, "man enc" says "Blowfish and R