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AES 256Bit using a key less than 256Bit Apr 04 2008 06:01PM
Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus (stefan seekline net)
Hello,

often you find products which implement AES 256Bit encryption e.g. in
hard drive encryption, file encryption or whatever. The user specifies a
password/passphrase which is used for encryption.

My actual question is what does the standard say to passwords which are
not exactly 256 Bit long? ...

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