June 2, 2006

On encryption and blowfish

Category: Software development — by Amit Chaudhary @ 11:07 pm

As part of exploring encryption of a newer version of the note taking software for linux, TuxCards

Information at Wikipedia

Encryption
Symmetric-key algorithm aka private key algorithm: The encryption key is trivially related to the decryption key, in that they may be identical or there is a simple transform to go between the two keys.

Blowfish (cipher)

The creator: Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier’s main Blowfish Encryption Algorithm page
Blowfish Source Code includes C++ by Jim Conger used in Tuxcards. Note on incompatilibility with other blowfish implementations due to endian issues.

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An Introduction to the Use of Encryption by Peter Meyer

Overview of Encryption Algorithms

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