Does anyone know the advantages/disadvantages of different mcrypt ciphers? There's Blowfish, 3DES, Twofish, Enigma, Panama, Rijndael, and about a million others. Having no experience with any of them, the choice seems pretty arbitrary.

Many thanks for any ideas.

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I tend to just use crypt() with MM. Is there any particular reason why you need to make a string any more encrypted?

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Andy (mod)
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Hi Andy,

It's not that I need it any "more encrypted" (although I do want it to be super-secure since I'll be storing sensitive/valuable information) it's that I need a two-way algorithm so I can later decrypt the encrypted strings. That's why I'm using mcrypt instead of crypt() or md5().

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