[Gambas-user] Need to have blowfish en- and decryption

[Brant Wells]

Hey Volker:

Thanks for the websites...  I found the one you posted for blowfish 
quite useful, as it had some good examples to follow... 

I think that Gambas is really strong, and lightyears ahead of other 
Basic & IDEs for Linux...  I will be making a class implementation of 
whatever encryption engine I can find whose math I actually can 
understand!  If you are good in Visual Basic, maybe you could work on a 
Gambas port of the Base64 Encodes, etc?

The more stuff we get ported or written in Gambas, the stronger it becomes!

Will keep everyone posted on progress!
~Brant



Volker Schmid wrote:

> Hi Charlie,
>
>> I'v never worked with the blowfish encryption and decryption.
>> I mean I don't know what it is.
>> But if you can use it on a shell, you can use SHELL or EXEC to
>> encrypt or decrypt
>
>
> Blowfish is an de- and encryption algorithm. It is much faster than 
> DES and IDEA,
> unpatented and royalty-free.
>
> You can learn more about this on the webpage of Bruce Schneier:
> http://www.schneier.com/blowfish.html
>
> Code-Sources for various languages are available here:
> http://www.schneier.com/blowfish-download.html
>
> But I need a fast integration into Gambas. I think it would be too 
> slow if I implement it with gambas-code. Maybe Benoit can add some of 
> these functions directly into gambas? I think about CRC32 (Checksum), 
> Base64 (de- and encode for Mails), Blowfish (for good security in 
> settings and passwords), SHA-128 or MD5 (for Hash-Calculating) and 
> some asymetrical functions like Diffie-Hellman, IDEA or RSA (for 
> signing and public-key encryption).
>
> Maybe directly as language-features or as a component.
>
> Just an idea...
>
> Grüsse,
>
> Volker