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Should I salt an AES password at each encryption?
I saw a sample code where the same password is salted with a different value (using PBKDF2) for each encryption. That means that the salt must be stored for each encrypted message.
I don't understand ...
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How easily could this be cracked?
I'm looking into encrypting files like this: First, I SHA-1 hash the password. Let's say the password is something normal like "hello123", and then hashed. Then I encrypt a file using this:
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Is there a standard for OpenSSL-interoperable AES encryption?
Many AES-encrypted things (files, strings, database entries, etc.) start with "Salted__" ("U2FsdGVkX1" in base64).
I hear it's some sort of OpenSSL interoperability thing a b c.
Is there some ...
