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alegator
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O.P. Best encryption algorithm?
When I go to Roboform's options, under Security you can choose among the following encryption algorithms:
-DES
-3DES
-AES
-Blowfish
-RC6
By default it's set to AES. Is this the safest one? If not, which one? Thanks
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| 05-10-2009 04:58 PM |
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RE: Best encryption algorithm?
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| 05-10-2009 05:12 PM |
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RE: Best encryption algorithm?
DES is definitely inferior to Triple-DES which is in turn inferior to the rest.
RC6 was the candidate for the competition for the AES standard (the current AES standard was originally named Rijndael when it was just a candidate, fyi).
I'd personally choose Blowfish because according to wikipedia no good cryptanalysis has been done for it; AES is more widely used and so more people are looking into how to break it so maybe you're at more risk to be cracked  . |
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| 05-10-2009 05:13 PM |
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RE: Best encryption algorithm?
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Originally posted by Mnjul
I'd personally choose Blowfish because according to wikipedia no good cryptanalysis has been done for it
Doesn't make it more secure. Security through obscurity is generally a bad thing .
AES is good enough for US government's top secret files.
This post was edited on 05-10-2009 at 05:29 PM by Menthix.
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| 05-10-2009 05:29 PM |
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ShawnZ
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RE: Best encryption algorithm?
quote:
Originally posted by Mnjul
I'd personally choose Blowfish because according to wikipedia no good cryptanalysis has been done for it; AES is more widely used and so more people are looking into how to break it so maybe you're at more risk to be cracked
an algorithm derived from blowfish was also submitted for the AES competition and lost Spoiler: the game.
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| 05-10-2009 05:36 PM |
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RE: Best encryption algorithm?
DES isn't actually broken, however the keylength of 56 bits was deliberately crippled by the US NSA, presumably because they have a backdoor to decrypt it with short keylengths.
3DES is supposedly pretty secure by using a triple pass in chain-block cipher mode.
AES is generally faster and is considered as secure as blowfish. I've not looked at RC6 myself, YMMV.
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| 05-10-2009 10:37 PM |
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alegator
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O.P. RE: Best encryption algorithm?
Thanks everyone for their replies. Now, the way roboform works is that it stores the login information for a user's commonly accessed websites (username+password). It will only provide and fill the login info once the user logs in the program by means of a password that the user sets. So the question is, who cares how safe is the encryption method? I mean, if the program's access password is weak enough, someone can guess it or decypher it and then access all the encrypted login records stored in Roboform. ???
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| 05-11-2009 04:39 AM |
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RE: Best encryption algorithm?
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Originally posted by alegator
I mean, if the program's access password is weak enough, someone can guess it or decypher it and then access all the encrypted login records stored in Roboform. ???
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| 05-11-2009 10:40 AM |
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RE: Best encryption algorithm?
Nobody mentioned how important the password is. If you use an easy password, it doesn't matter how 'super-fucking-great' the algorithm is.
I would choose AES.
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| 05-13-2009 11:00 AM |
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RE: Best encryption algorithm?
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Originally posted by linx05
Nobody mentioned how important the password is. If you use an easy password, it doesn't matter how 'super-fucking-great' the algorithm is.
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Originally posted by alegator
I mean, if the program's access password is weak enough, someone can guess it or decypher it and then access all the encrypted login records stored in Roboform.
This post was edited on 05-13-2009 at 11:18 AM by stoshrocket.
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| 05-13-2009 11:18 AM |
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