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| Mar 17, 2017 at 13:14 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 2, 2016 at 21:51 | comment | added | Luis Casillas | Message authentication codes are irreversible and yet use secret keys. So no, keys are not always used in reversible encryption operations. Also, your statement that salts are "not public" but can be "known" without compromising security is a terminological nuance that not everybody shares. | |
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| Aug 2, 2016 at 19:40 | history | answered | 700 Software | CC BY-SA 3.0 |