Article 37356 of alt.security:
BF-SDK
Blowfish Software Development Kit
Version 1.1
(c) 1996 Markus Hahn & Cedric Reinartz
About BF-SDK
~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is the Blowfish System Development Kit.
It provides the basic functions to en-/decrypt data in ECB and CBC mode
(with variable number of encryption rounds).
It has an easy-to-use interface and you can directly use it in Turbo/
Borland Pascal, TASM/MASM and even in MS Visual C++. Interfaces for
other languages like Fortran or Cobol are easy to implement because the
full source and documentation is provided.
For private use the software is free unrestricted and no registration
is required.
Where to get it
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ftp.franken.de /pub/crypt/misc
ftp.funet.fi /pub/crypt/cryptography/symmetric/blowfish
garbo.uwasa.fi /pc/programming
ftp.hacktic.nl /pub/replay/pub/crypto/LIBS/blowfish
ftp.ox.ac.uk /pub/crypto/misc
What is Blowfish ?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Blowfish is a data encryption algorithm which was published in the Dr.Dobb's
Journal magazine, issue #213 on April 1994. It was developed by Bruce Schneier
and is unpatented and placed in the public domain.
In the September issue 1995 of DDJ Blowfish was (after a sponsored contest)
still unbreaked.
The advantages of this encryption algorithm is its design for 32bit CPUs like
the 80386 and above achieving an excellent performance with a maximum
gain of security.
Technical Notes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This software needs at least:
- IBM compatible AT-system with an 80386SX processor or better
- DOS 3.0 or above
achieved speed: 1.8 MB/sec on a Pentium90
2.7 MB/sec on a Pentium133
The actual version (1.1) is designed for 16bit systems, so you
should be able to use it in every - DOS real mode application
- DOS 286 protected mode application
- Windows 3.x application flawlessly.
Files in this package
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sourcecode: BFENG386.ASM the engine, the heart of all
BFE_ASM.INC macros to help in writing assembly apps
BLOWFISH.PAS Pascal unit interface
BLOWFISH.H needed for C implementations
CPP_DEMO.CPP demo written in MS Visual C++
ASM_DEMO.ASM demo written in assembly language
PAS_DEMO.PAS demo written in Pascal
precompiled: BFENG386.OBJ object file of the cryptengine
BLOWFISH.TPU Borland Pascal Unit
ASM_DEMO.EXE assembly demo executable
PAS_DEMO.EXE Pascal demo executable
CPP_DEMO.EXE QuickWin demo for Windows 3.x (and above)
documentation: BF-SDK.TXT you're reading this now
BFCBCGR.TXT explanation of Blowfish (german only, sorry)
ASM.TXT explanation on how to use BF-SDK in Assembler
CPP.TXT explanation on how to use BF-SDK in C++
PASCAL.TXT explanation on how to use BF-SDK in Pascal
misc: MAKEALL.BAT batch file which compiles all the precompiled
from the source, except of the MSVC project
FILE_ID.DIZ BBS description
Applications already using BF-SDK
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ASPICRYP by Cedric Reinartz, a DOS based TSR which hooks to an
ASPI-Manager and encrypts the data going to a SCSI-device using the
Blowfish algorithm in CBC mode.
You can get it at:
ftp.franken.de
/pub/crypt/misc/ASPICRxx.ZIP
ftp.garbo.uwasa.fi
/pub/crypt/ASPICRxx.ZIP
ftp.hacktic.nl
/pub/replay/pub/crypto/LIBS/blowfish
* Blowfish Advanced 7 (BFA7) by Markus Hahn
a fast, secure and comfortable file encryption utility
for 386+ and DOS. It'll soon be available for Windows 95, too.
You can get it at:
ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
/pub/systems/pc/security/BFA7xx.ZIP
ftp.garbo.uwasa.fi
/pub/crypt/BFA7xx.ZIP
ftp.hacktic.nl
/pub/replay/pub/crypto/LIBS/blowfish