I believe what you might be looking for can be found in PKCS #5.
Here: http://www.rsalabs.com/pkcs/pkcs-5/index.html
It describes password based encryption schemes.
- Bob
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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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