On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Jack Lloyd wrote:
The basic scenario I'm looking at is encrypting some data using a
password-derived key (using PBKDF2 with sane salt sizes and
iteration counts). [...] My inclination is to use the PBKDF2 output
as a key encryption key, rather than using it to directly
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Subject: Encryption using password-derived keys
The basic scenario I'm looking at is encrypting some data using a
password-derived key (using PBKDF2 with sane salt sizes and iteration
counts). I am
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Subject: Encryption using password-derived keys
The basic scenario I'm looking at is encrypting some data using a
password-derived key (using PBKDF2 with sane salt sizes
The basic scenario I'm looking at is encrypting some data using a
password-derived key (using PBKDF2 with sane salt sizes and iteration
counts). I am not sure if what I'm doing is sound practice or just pointless
overengineering and wanted to get a sanity check.
My inclination is to use the
