Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/29/2008 06:52:18 PM:
> Hello, > > consider the following example: > > You want to encrypt something using OpenSSL's AES 256 Bit encryption. > You use the OpenSSL command line interface and specify an 8 character > password. This means you specified 64 Bit (8 characters = 64 Bit) but > want to use 256 Bit encryption. > > How does the OpenSSL library "expand" the password? Does it do a digest > of the user specified password to fill up the 256 Bit? Is there even a > standard which describes this? > > And finally is there a public interface where an application developer > can pass a password and as a result he becomes a password of the > specified length? Try: PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1() Best regards, -- Marek Marcola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
