Re: blowfish from openSSL to kernel cryptoAPI

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Tzvi Chumash wrote:
> I'm trying (without much success) to decrypt in-kernel
> (2.6.18-194.el5PAE) a cipher that was created using openSSL
> (0.9.8e-fips-rhel5) using blowfish with a 56-byte key/8-byte iv. Are the
> implementations incompatible (i.e. can't encrypt in one and decrypt in
> the other?) or am I doing something wrong?

Check byte order of the two implementations. Many blowfish implementations
got byte order wrong. Does it help if you swap byte order from
0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7 to 7-6-5-4-3-2-1-0 of key/data/IV before and after crypto
operation?

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