On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Paul Khavkine wrote:

> 
> Some bits of code in C using openSSL that seem to work with Crypt::CBC 
> Blowfish, should work in C++.

http://www.unixdaemons.com/~paul/crypto

> 
> Cheers
> Paul
> 
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Colin Viebrock wrote:
> 
> > > 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
> > 
> 
> 

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