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cowan> i want to encrypt the source data(null-terminated) using user's
cowan> password. first, i want to generate the random number using
cowan> user's password. and then encrypt the source data with the
cowan> generated random number.
A random number generated from a known string is not a random number,
and therefore gives you no extra protection (unless you call one extra
step of computation "protection").
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