ElevateDB uses the Blowfish symmetric block cipher encryption algorithm along with the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 message-digest algorithm for encrypting configuration files, tables and remote session requests and responses to and from an ElevateDB Server.

Copyright and Credits

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Both the Blowfish and MD5 implementations in ElevateDB were developed internally. The following are the citations and copyrights for the Blowfish and MD5 algorithms.

   Blowfish Algorithm © Copyright 1993 Bruce Schneier
   MD5 Algorithm © Copyright 1991-1992, RSA Data Security, Inc.

ElevateDB uses the MD5 message-digest algorithm to generate 128-bit MD5 hashes from plain-text passwords. These hashes are then used with the Blowfish 8-byte symmetric block cipher algorithm to encrypt the actual data.