[asterisk-dev] mISDN with crypto

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Wed Jul 16 11:07:54 CDT 2008


On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:22:42PM -0400, Jeff Gehlbach wrote:
> On Jul 15, 2008, at 11:53 AM, andrea wrote:
> > i like to know how is good the encryption into mISDN .
> 
> You really should do your own research on this -- it's your data, why  
> trust me to advise you on whether a given cipher will adequately  
> protect it?
> 
> > It use blowfish, i just like to know if is easy to decrypt.
> 
> Blowfish is (last I heard) a well-respected cipher with no known  
> ciphertext attacks when running in CBC mode.  

Right.

Unless you believe everything you read on the Internet, and know that it
has a trapdoor for the author:

http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/189

> It was runner-up to  Rijndael in the AES competition.  

That one is actually TwoFish from the same team and based on the same
principles.

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