> My Blowfish code passes all the test vectors provided by
> the original creator of Blowfish, located here,
>
> http://www.counterpane.com/blowfish.html
>
> But as I stated, it was through the help of others who
> have successfully authored their own client code that I
> found out that the de-facto blowfish standard does not
> work with Tucows. In fact one person told me that they had
> CounterPane help them with getting the Blowfish alogorithm
> working and CounterPane told them the library you refer to
> is slightly different than the Blowfish spec. Thus without
> Tucows documenting this descrepency I'm SOL.
If I understand correctly, then your beef isn't really with Tucows.
It's with the people who wrote the Crypt::CBC Perl class.
I ran into the same problem with the PHP client. I couldn't simply use
the PHP commands to encode something with Blowfish (or DES) in CBC mode.
I had to write a class to emulate the way Crypt:CBC works.
If you want to take a look at the PHP code, and try and implement it in
C++, it's here:
http://cvs.php.net/co.php/pear/Crypt_CBC/CBC.php?r=1.4
- Colin
