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nycjv321
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two suggestions...

First of all this seems like a great application and idea, but I believe that users should be instructed to BACKUP data until they feel comfortable with its stability since I have noticed several bugs of data corruption...

Second of all
I see you use "burp" for blowfish encryption which is very nice but have you seen http://bcrypt.sourceforge.net/ ? I believe this application users a more secure implementation of the blowfish algorithm if you want check it out and verify for me. maybe in later releases you can use this as a backup for the blowfish algorithm

(there is also http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/ for another AES backend, but I haven't used it, just posting as a FYI)

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Ccrypt

is the default form of secure in 1.2 and should have fixed all of the data corruption issues. As for blowfish it is being phased out in 2.0.

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Why phase out blowfish?

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as you mentioned the impementation is fairly old and ccrypt give a number of bonuses, it's faster and the incorrect password cannot be used. I would prefer to standardise on one implementation rather than support two, is there a specific reason you like blowfish?

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well I could really care less, symmetric encryption algorithms are all insecure in one way or another but are used the majority of the time, adding to that its just plain file encryption, I was just wondering what you had in plans well thx for the fast response(s) Biggrin

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