Stephen Harris

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Mathematics PhD student at the University of Edinburgh with a (geeky) passion for anything coding related.

I've recently created a new WordPress Event management plugin, Event Organiser.

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3	Can I use PBKDF2 for authentication and decryption?
3	What is the actual difference between security through obscurity and true encryption?
3	Why can't the IV be predictable when its said it doesn't need to be a secret?
3	PBKDF2 and salt
2	Expectation Value of the Index of Coincidence

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+10	Why can't the IV be predictable when its said it doesn't need to be a secret?
+10	What is the actual difference between security through obscurity and true encryption?
+10	Can I use PBKDF2 for authentication and decryption?
+10	PBKDF2 and salt

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9 encryption × 3	3 key-derivation
6 pbkdf-2 × 2	3 keys
3 salt	3 authentication
3 initialization-vector	2 index-of-coincidence

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