Timeline for Hardening password-based file encryption with a synchronous stream cipher plus high-memory hashing algorithm?
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| Jul 24, 2017 at 6:02 | vote | accept | atlantisnova | ||
| Jul 21, 2017 at 23:42 | comment | added | atlantisnova | Thanks for your very detailed answer! I see what you're saying about Argon, so let's ignore that for the moment. But wouldn't there still be an advantage to append your DEK to the end of your ciphertext and then encrypting the whole thing with your KEK/synchronous stream cipher? Since that way for every attempt you have to decrypt the entire 50M file, rather than just your DEK? | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 23:08 | history | answered | Luis Casillas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |