Sunday, September 25, 2016

Strength of builtin blowfish2 encryption?

Hi,

I wonder how string the builtin encryption of vim really is.
The manpage states: "cryptmethod zip [ ... ] breakable [ ... ] a 6
character key in one day (on a Pentium 133 PC)"
Guess today's computers will use seconds if not microseconds.

But what about blowfish2?

Was this ever reviewed? Are there any tools out there to crack it
(with weak keys) to get an idea how long it would take with a complex
key?

I wonder if it's safe to put a blowfish2 crypted password file on a
cloud drive, how long it would take for it to be cracked if someone
really tries to.

Thank you,
Stefan

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