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Key length and hash function in PBKDF2
On this page:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/openssl/rdoc/OpenSSL/PKCS5.html
they make a statement that strikes me as rather weird:
Key Length
Specifies the length in bytes of ...
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Is it safe to have the salt equal to IV?
If I'm using AES-256 CBC to encrypt, getting the 32 byte key using multiple iterations of the PBKDF2 function with a 16 byte salt, is it safe for me to let IV be equal to the salt?
(Edit: The salt is ...
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Can a biometric device serve as a user based entropy source?
I am wondering if a biometric device can be used to generate some entropy or key material that would be stable across each authentication.
The contrary would be for biometric devices to act like an ...
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Can the salt for PBKDF2 be a hash of the user-entered password?
I want to derive a key from a password in a client application that will be used as a master key that decrypts a data key. As far as I understand the salt should be private knowledge. Would it be ...
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Would it make sense to use Bcrypt and PBKDF2 together?
I've read various opinions about whether Bcrypt or PDBKF2 is a better key derivation hashing method. The answer seems to depend on a lot of complicated factors that are not easy to analyze. Would ...
