RE: openssl decrypting unknown whether DES or AES encrypted

2009-08-04 Thread Tom Horstmann
Is there a way to determine if a string is encrypted in DES or AES? No Will the decrypt AES fail on a DES encrypted string always or will openssl return a good return but with garbage as the decrypted string? The latter -Original Message- From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org

Re: RE: openssl decrypting unknown whether DES or AES encrypted

2009-08-04 Thread carlyoung
On Tue 4/08/09 10:19 AM , Tom Horstmann t...@utome.de sent: Is there a way to determine if a string is encrypted in DES or AES? No Will the decrypt AES fail on a DES encrypted string always or will openssl return a good return but with garbage as the decrypted string? The latter To the

Re: openssl decrypting unknown whether DES or AES encrypted

2009-08-04 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009, canroc wrote: Moving from DES to AES encryption and all new encryption will be AES. However some existing strings were encrypted in DES. Is there a way to determine if a string is encrypted in DES or AES? Will the decrypt AES fail on a DES encrypted string always or

Re: openssl decrypting unknown whether DES or AES encrypted

2009-08-04 Thread Mike Trent
Mike Trent wrote: Moving from DES to AES encryption and all new encryption will be AES. However some existing strings were encrypted in DES. Is there a way to determine if a string is encrypted in DES or AES? Will the decrypt AES fail on a DES encrypted string always or will openssl