Comparison of DES, Triple DES, AES, blowfish encryption for data
Use AES. In more details: DES is the old “data encryption standard” from the seventies. Its key size is too short for proper security (56 effective bits; this can be brute-forced, as has been demonstrated more than ten years ago). Also, DES uses 64-bit blocks, which raises some potential issues when encrypting several gigabytes of … Read more