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Blowfish was designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier, a well-known cryptographer and security expert. The algorithm was created as a replacement for the aging Data Encryption Standard (DES) and was intended to be a general-purpose encryption algorithm that could be used in a wide range of applications.

Blowfish is a symmetric-key block cipher that encrypts data in 64-bit blocks. It uses a variable-length key, from 32 bits to 448 bits, making it suitable for both domestic and exportable use. It is also fast and efficient in both software and hardware, and it has a simple structure that lends itself well to various optimizations. Additionally, Blowfish is a Feistel cipher, which means it divides the input data into two halves, processes them separately, and then combines them to produce the output.

It's worth noting that, as with any encryption algorithm, the security of the system ultimately depends on the strength of the key and the implementation. However, as Blowfish is not considered a secure encryption method by today's standards, it is recommended to use other encryption methods such as AES.

In conclusion, Blowfish is an encryption algorithm that has been around for over 25 years, it's fast and efficient and suitable for a wide range of applications, it has a simple structure that lends itself well to various optimizations. But it's not considered a secure encryption method by today's standards, it is recommended to use other encryption methods such as AES.

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Hello i'm new to Java and i have the following problem: i'm trying to encrypt the password of a user using the blowfish algorithm, but when i try to decrypt it back to check the authentication it fails to decrypt it for some reason.

you are encrypting a password. that means you need to store a key somewhere (you cannot store it in the database or anyone that steals the database will be able to decrypt the passwords). instead, you should use a hash.

even then, you should not store passwords in this way. not even if you use a salt correctly. these days it is too easy to crack simply hashed passwords, even when salted. instead, use the bcrypt library or PBKDF2.

"salt" -- Combine the passphrase with an 8-byte random value to generate both the block cipher key and the IV from the provided passphrase. The salt will be appended to the beginning of the data stream allowing decryption to regenerate both the key and IV given the correct passphrase. This method is compatible with current versions of OpenSSL.

I now need to decrypt the ciphertext on another platform that only supports CBC decryption given the ciphertext, a literal key & IV. To attempt to generate the literal key, IV & salt, I used Crypt::CBC to generate the values like so:

I'm trying to use the blowfish cipher to decrypt a dataset, however I can't seem to get it to work. I use the blowfish 0.9.1 crate and made some attempts to combine it with the cbc 0.1.2 crate (which breaks).

The reference implementation I have for my tests is in C#, uses bouncycastle's implementation of blowfish (bc-csharp/BlowfishEngine.cs at master bcgit/bc-csharp GitHub) and produces verifiably valid results when decrypting data.

I have some encrypted data stored in db. The data was encrypted in Java with methods from Cypher class. It can be decrypted in the same way in java (with cipher.init, cipher.doFinal), but I need to decrypt it in sql. So there is way to decrypt the data in sql? For example in stored procedures?

as far as i know, there isn't a native way to do this for SQL Server, unless you count the CLR in 2005. You'd either use that to decrypt it - write something in C#/VB that decrypts using Blowfish - or you could pull it out to a small app or webpage and do it there and then update the rows.

you could give that a try; it may or may not work; for example, My company was using an AES encryption method for certain columns, and even with the same encryption seed, when i was testing the vb6 version we were using to encrypt/decrypt did not procude the same results as the extended stored procedure. named the same, but different in the details, so we ended up centralizing to always use the stored proc instead.

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I tried with the DBA Toolkit, but you're right...The encryption in Java uses the blowfish encryption, I tried the same data to encrypt with the extended stored procedure for blowfish from the toolkit, but the results are not the same...Maybe I'm missing something?

Unfortunately I can't change the way how the data is encrypted in java, they use it for some time and it is very complex...They use a lot of keys to get a final key, and with this final key the data is encrypted with the methods for blowfish algorithm from Cipher class, which is in an extension for java jdk.

So I got this final key and tried to decrypt the data with the extended stored procedures. But it seems that it doesn't work. Maybe I should search or ask in java forums how this methods from Cipher class really work...

Hey guys, I'm updating an old Windows Flash app that was previously launched via a now defunct wrapper called MDM Zinc. It created text files that were encrypted with the Blowfish algorithm. I'm now trying to decrypt these files with Adobe AIR, so that new versions of the app can still open the old encrypted files - what's the best way to do this?

The source package for as3crypto includes a CryptoDemo.mxml app that can be compiled with the Flex SDK. The SecretTab.mxml file seems to demonstrate how to use a number of encryption types, including Blowfish. They're all mixed in together in the same file, though, so there isn't a simple demo of Blowfish only that's easy to copy and paste.

Thanks! It turns out the problem was that I had my input in the wrong format. I gradually figured that out by working through all the examples that I could find, but in the end the example at the very bottom of your link was pretty much what I needed.

Bruce Schneier of Counterpane Systems developed the Blowfish cipher algorithm. RFC 2451 shows that Blowfish uses key sizes from 40 to 448 bits. The Default size is 128 bits. We will only accept key sizes of 128 bits, because libgrypt only accept this key size. Have a look to for more information. BLOWFISH-CBC uses an IV of 8 octets.

@Kurt Knochner As far as I know it uses a custom binary protocol and every packet is encrypted with Blowfish. SO I guess that you could basically just run the decryption algorithm on the contents of a packet.

By default this initializes a Blowfish cipher that will interpret bytes usingthe big-endian byte order. Should the need arrise to use the little-endian byteorder, provide "little" as the second argument.

To encrypt or decrypt data in CTR mode, use encrypt_ctr or decrypt_ctrmethods of the Cipher object. CTR mode can operate on data of any length.Although you can use any counter you want, a simple increment by one counteris secure and the most popular. So for convenience sake a simple increment byone counter is implemented by the blowfish.ctr_counter function. However,you should implement your own for optimization purposes.

Symmetric ciphers can operate either in theblock mode or in thestream mode.Some algorithms support both modes, others support only one mode.In the block mode, the cryptographic algorithm splits the input message into anarray of small fixed-sized blocks and then encrypts or decrypts the blocksone by one. In the stream mode, every digit (usually one bit) of the inputmessage is encrypted separately.

In the block mode processing, if the blocks were encrypted completelyindependently the encrypted message might be vulnerable to some trivial attacks.Obviously, if there were two identical blocks encrypted without any additionalcontext and using the same function and key, the corresponding encrypted blockswould also be identical. This is why block ciphers are usually used in variousmodes of operation.Operation modes introduce an additional variable into the function that holdsthe state of the calculation. The state is changed during the encryption/decryptionprocess and combined with the content of every block. This approach mitigates theproblems with identical blocks and may also serve for other purposes. Theinitialization value of the additional variable is called theinitialization vector. Thedifferences between block ciphers operating modes are in the way they combinethe state (initialization) vector with the input block and the way the vectorvalue is changed during the calculation. The stream ciphers hold and changetheir internal state by design and usually do not support explicit input vectorvalues on their input.

Select the operation mode in the Mode field and enter a key inthe Key field. The permitted lengths of keys for particular cryptographic functionsare listed below. If you don't specify a key with permitted length the key is prolonged withthe proper number of null bytes at the end. When the key is changed the prefix of sha1(key) function isautomatically filled in the IV field. You still may change the IV.The feature is intended only for your convenience. Using the radio buttons under theKey input field, you can specify whether the entered key valueshould be interpreted as a plain text or a hexadecimal value.

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