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Cryptographic Functions Aug 18 2009 03:50PM
M.D.Mufambisi (mufambisi gmail com) (6 replies)

Re: Cryptographic Functions Aug 19 2009 02:19PM
David Howe (DaveHowe Pentest googlemail com)

Re: Cryptographic Functions Aug 19 2009 01:47PM
David Howe (David Howe ansgroup co uk) (1 replies)

RE: Cryptographic Functions Aug 19 2009 04:16PM
Brett A. Greenberg (brett highintensity com)

Re: Cryptographic Functions Aug 18 2009 06:15PM
Vladimir Ivanov (ivlad malpaso ru)

Re: Cryptographic Functions Aug 18 2009 06:02PM
M.B.Jr. (marcio barbado gmail com)

Re: Cryptographic Functions Aug 18 2009 06:02PM
Jeffrey Walton (noloader gmail com)

Re: Cryptographic Functions Aug 18 2009 04:05PM
Jan Germann (jan jans-site de) (1 replies)

Re: Cryptographic Functions Aug 18 2009 05:16PM
Jamie Riden (jamie riden gmail com)

There are specific functions for this, so I assume there is something
not good about using plain SHA1. Botan (C++ library) and Java have
password to key support I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2898

cheers,
Jamie

2009/8/18 Jan Germann <jan (at) jans-site (dot) de [email concealed]>:
> I done by using cryptografic hashfunctions, like sha...
>
> Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 17:50 +0200 schrieb M.D.Mufambisi:
>> Hello people.
>>
>> 1. When a passphrase is used a key in symetric cryptography, how does
>> the pass phrase map to the key in an algorithm like AES? ie....how
>> many letters correspond to 1 bit? etc?
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Munyaradzi Mufambisi

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