info > EVP_CIPHER-BLOWFISH(7)

📛 NAME

EVP_CIPHER-BLOWFISH - The BLOBFISH EVP_CIPHER implementations

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Encrypt with BF-ECB	openssl enc -bf-ecb -e -in plain.txt -out cipher.enc	Encrypt using Blowfish ECB mode
Encrypt with BF-CBC	openssl enc -bf-cbc -e -in plain.txt -out cipher.enc	Encrypt using Blowfish CBC mode
Decrypt with BF-CFB	openssl enc -bf-cfb -d -in cipher.enc -out plain.txt	Decrypt using Blowfish CFB mode
List Blowfish ciphers	openssl list -cipher-algorithms | grep BF	List available Blowfish algorithms

📖 DESCRIPTION

Support for BLOWFISH symmetric encryption using the EVP_CIPHER API.

🏷️ Algorithm Names

The following algorithms are available in the legacy provider:

• BF-ECB
• BF-CBC
• BF-OFB
• BF-CFB

⚙️ Parameters

This implementation supports the parameters described in PARAMETERS in EVP_EncryptInit(3).

🔗 SEE ALSO

• provider-cipher(7)
• OSSL_PROVIDER-legacy(7)

©️ COPYRIGHT

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Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html.