Re: openssl decrypting unknown whether DES or AES encrypted

2009-08-04 Thread Mike Trent
Mike Trent wrote: > > Moving from DES to AES encryption and all new encryption will be AES. > However some existing strings were encrypted in DES. Is there a way to > determine if a string is encrypted in DES or AES? Will the decrypt AES > fail on a DES encrypted string always or will openssl

Re: openssl decrypting unknown whether DES or AES encrypted

2009-08-04 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009, canroc wrote: > > Moving from DES to AES encryption and all new encryption will be AES. However > some existing strings were encrypted in DES. Is there a way to determine if > a string is encrypted in DES or AES? Will the decrypt AES fail on a DES > encrypted string always

Re: RE: openssl decrypting unknown whether DES or AES encrypted

2009-08-04 Thread carlyoung
> >On Tue 4/08/09 10:19 AM , "Tom Horstmann" t...@utome.de sent: >> Is there a way to determine if >> a string is encrypted in DES or AES? > >No > >> Will the decrypt AES fail on a DES >> encrypted string always or will openssl return a good return but with >> garbage as the decrypted string? > >Th

RE: openssl decrypting unknown whether DES or AES encrypted

2009-08-04 Thread Tom Horstmann
> Is there a way to determine if > a string is encrypted in DES or AES? No > Will the decrypt AES fail on a DES > encrypted string always or will openssl return a good return but with > garbage as the decrypted string? The latter -Original Message- From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org