[cs631apue] Question about the key

Jan Schaumann jschauma at stevens.edu
Thu Nov 29 09:49:55 EST 2012


Ken Bodzak <kbodzak at stevens.edu> wrote:
> Please note that the EVP functions expect you to use a 128 bit key with the
> Blowfish algorithm.
 
> I felt that I should share this because it seems to be poorly documented,
> and a bit confusing since we are using a smaller key size.

Our program also requires you to specify a 16 byte (ie 128 bit)
hexadecimal string.  I had updated the manual page the other day to note
this explicitly.

-Jan


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