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How high is the entropy of this salt-generating code? (No code-reading actually necessary)

What is the best method? Assumption: I have a function that generates a number of medium-high entropy bytes Step1: I generate 3 of these medium-high entropy bytes. Step2: I hash these bytes using a ...
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aes cfb 128 decryption /encryption problem between Erlang and PHP

Update 2 - it works Thanks to Tom Leek for his answer. The CFB mode of mycrypt for Rijndael uses a 8-bit feedback loop and not a feedback loop the length of the key/iv. You have to force it to use ...
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What is the best way to generate keys in phpseclib?

I am using phpseclib implementation AES and HMAC. But I dont know the best way to create random keys for these. What is the best way to do? Is there any built in function in phpseclib to create keys ...
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Maintain sensitive key between requests

EDIT: Reworked question. Previous version too poorly asked. On my website users write sensitive messages that must be kept secret. The entire user area is over SSL, so the communication between user ...
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How insecure are PHP's rand functions?

There are some pseudo-random-number generators in PHP: rand(), srand(), mt_rand(), mt_srand(). You can look at their code here. I understand those functions are insecure, but how insecure are they? ...
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openssl_digest vs hash vs hash_hmac? Difference between SALT & HMAC?

openssl_digest vs hash vs hash_hmac I want to use SHA512 for storing password. Which of the above methods are best to use? Why? What is the difference between SALT & HMAC? I just read ...
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PHP/JavaScript with RSA

I have a few columns in the database which should be encrypted. I'm wondering if the way I chose to make this system work is ok, and I'm looking forward to hear some opinions: I chose RSA algorithm ...
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Is this algorithm for a random string cryptographically secure?

I've pieced together this algorithm (if it can be called that) from various bits of code I've seen online, and I'm wondering how cryptographically secure it is. It's used to generate passwords: ...
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Can DES-based hashed password be recovered if salt is known?

Can a hashed password be recovered if the hashing is done with DES based crypt function in PHP and both the hash and salt are known by the attacker? Consider the following example: $salt = 'mysalt'; ...
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TCrypto - Comments about design decisions I made?

I have pushed some code to GitHub to demonstrate the usage of symmetric key encryption in PHP. It is a small key-value storage library and it (optionally) offers ability to encrypt the stored ...
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Thoughts on Tiny Encryption Algorithm (TEA, anyone)?

I'm planning to implement Tiny Encryption Algorithm and exchange data between two PHP sites. Specifically, using the code presented at PHP-einfach.de Does anyone have any experiences / thoughts / ...