Key generation is the process of generating keys for cryptography. A key is used to encrypt and decrypt whatever data is being encrypted/decrypted.
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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 ...
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What does key signing mean?
What exactly does the "key signing" mean?
So for example I have a private/public GPG key so that people could send me encrypted e-mail, because they know my public key. But: what does key signing ...
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Generate cryptographically strong pseudorandom numbers in Javascript?
Is there any good way to generate cryptographically strong pseudorandom (or true random) numbers in Javascript?
The crucial requirement: if a.com's Javascript generates some random numbers, no one ...
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What is the recomended algorithm to create a key from a password?
In my new secret document encryption utility, the key for symmetric encryption = the hash of a random salt and a user provided password.
It is necessary to have a slow hash function in order to ...
