Re: The importance of IVs
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Re: The importance of IVs

From: BRG <brg@nowhere.org>
Date: Sun Aug 28 2005 - 01:30:12 CEST

mobius30 wrote:

[snip]
> I'm by no means neither a professional programmer NOR an accomplished
> crytographer. I'm an amateur programmer, with most of my experience in
> VB .NET. I am looking for BOTH off-the-shelf symmetric software and
> the libraries necessary to build my own. The end goal is to gain
> enough reference and knowledge to:

[snip]
If you are a good VB.NET programmer, one option open to you is to use a
dynamic link library (DLL) for the cryptography. I don't know whether
there are DLLs around for Blowfish or Twofish but there certainly are
for AES.

   Brian Gladman
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:51:13 2005