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Re: AES 256Bit using a key less than 256Bit Apr 07 2008 07:19PM
Roman H. (roman hustad yahoo com)
Hi Stefan,

It is a bad idea to directly use the bits from a password as an encryption
key because there is insufficient entropy relative to the available key
space (even with a so-called "strong" password). However, people still
need to use passwords so there are some ways to generate a key from a...

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