Rijndael

[Atton]

https://github.com/ebakan/AES

Rijndael is used for encrypting top secret data and the code is above.

[ixjf]

I don't see where this algorithm would ever be more useful than the ones already implemented. Either way, one could easily make a module or even use an existing implementation of AES in Lua for whatever needs.

[Atton]

I don't see where this algorithm would ever be more useful than the ones already implemented. Either way, one could easily make a module or even use an existing implementation of AES in Lua for whatever needs.

Aes runs about 100x faster in CPP

[ixjf]

It obviously is, but that doesn't answer my question - where would this algorithm be useful in MTA?

[Atton]

It obviously is, but that doesn't answer my question - where would this algorithm be useful in MTA?

For things like login tokens and data.

[ixjf]

What's the problem with all the hashing and encryption algorithms supported by MTA? Surely no data from a game mode would be considered "top secret".

[Callum]

MTA supports SHA256 (part of SHA2), which is also created by the National Security Agency. The only reason SHA256 isn't used to store classified information is because it's a one-way hash function, whereas AES is a cryptosystem. Doesn't mean it's any less secure.

[Anubhav]

Hash and encrypting have a lot of differences.

MTA uses SHA256 as stated by Callum. SHA256 is a hash and AES is encryption.

AES can be decrypted but not SHA256. SHA256 must be brute forced. In MTA password system, there's a salt encryption also. Jusonex posted that somewhere.

[Atton]

Hash and encrypting have a lot of differences.

MTA uses SHA256 as stated by Callum. SHA256 is a hash and AES is encryption.

AES can be decrypted but not SHA256. SHA256 must be brute forced. In MTA password system, there's a salt encryption also. Jusonex posted that somewhere.

Hashing is a summary not an act of scrambling.