On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 05:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you are in the process of implementing AES encryption in Rev why don't you contact them off-list to see what the official plans are for stronger encryption? If they are not going to be implementing stronger encryption in the near future, they may be interested in working with you to incorporate your plans into Rev.
Regards,
Bernard
Hi Bernard,
In regards to my own expertise, one would have to consider what I might have learnt after just two days of looking into the world of Cryptography. What I know so far is that I can get what I need from Blowfish; if what I understand is the way Blowfish encrypts data, then I will be able to have stronger than AES 128 bit encryption.
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"Blowfish is a symmetric block cipher that can be used as a drop-in replacement for DES or IDEA. It takes a variable-length key, from 32 bits to 448 bits, making it ideal for both domestic and exportable use. Blowfish was designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier as a fast, free alternative to existing encryption algorithms. Since then it has been analyzed considerably, and it is slowly gaining acceptance as a strong encryption algorithm. Blowfish is unpatented and license-free, and is available free for all uses."
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The Valentina database uses the blowfish method of encryption but I'm not sure of any restrictions on the key length that might have been implemented by the Valentina Kernel; I'm looking into this as well. I don't have a pro-license for RunRev so I can't test the Valentina solution. I can't even test the Blowfish algorithm in RR. I'm using the free RR version until I can afford the small-business and then pro versions of RunRev. I'm on disability. My resources are so limited that it takes a long time to save up for things like this. That is one of the reasons that I'm checking the documentation first to see if this is the way to proceed. If I ever get a version that allows me to test longer than 10 line scripts then I will make the Blowfish stack for RR that encrypts, saves files as encrypted binaries, and decrypts them. That would make a nice contribution to the contributers page at the mother-ship website. I don't see a problem with giving it away. After all it is already available in several different programming languages for free; thanks to Bruce Schneier and others that worked on it.
Mark
