Answer by Mr. E for openssl speed tells me blowfish is much quicker than md5,...
bcrypt and blowfish are related but very different.Blowfish is an symmetric encryption algorithm. It takes a user supplied password, applies a key expansion functions and then uses this derived key to...
View ArticleAnswer by le3th4x0rbot for openssl speed tells me blowfish is much quicker...
Since bcrypt is used to store passwords, preventing brute force guessing attacks is essential. If it only used one round of a very fast hash, an attacker could guess much more quickly than if more work...
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First, I think you're misinterpreting your results. If for example we look at 1024-size blocks, MD5 is doing 1,547,154 in 3 seconds while Blowfish is only doing 355,336, and so is taking more than four...
View Articleopenssl speed tells me blowfish is much quicker than md5, what am I missing?
So I ran openssl speed md5 && openssl speed blowfish and blowfish seem quicker than md5.Here are the results (ran on windows WSL).$ openssl speed md5 && openssl speed blowfishDoing md5...
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