[AG-DEV] Vic and Rat Encryption

[Rhys Hawkins]

Hi Andrew,

I believe encrypted venues now use Rijndael in preference to DES, this
might be your problem.

Cheers,
    Rhys

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 17:01 +0100, Andrew Rowley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone have any information on how the encryption is done in Vic and
> Rat?  
> 
> I have been trying to decode this using Java Crypto using a PBEWithMD5AndDES
> algorithm which provides a secret key generated from a password and DES-CBS
> encryption with PKCS5 Padding.  I am using 0s to initialise this as per RFC
> 3550 and using one iteration of the all-0 salt.
> 
> This does not appear to work with vic or rat (the unencrypted packets work
> fine).  Can anyone tell me what the vic and rat algorithm for encryption is?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew :)
> 
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