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SEC023

Weak encryption algorithm

Object Pascal — Delphi & Free Pascal
Warning
Security

DES, RC4, and Blowfish are cryptographically broken and offer inadequate protection

DES, RC4, and Blowfish are cryptographically broken and offer inadequate protection.

Why this severity

DES, RC4, and Blowfish are cryptographically broken and offer inadequate protection.


Known false positives

legacy decryption paths needed to migrate old data to a stronger cipher.

Remediation example

Cipher := TAES.Create;
Cipher.KeySize := 256;

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