Cryptography

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Why is padding the plaintext with a random string before encryption worse than OAEP / PKCS#7?
Awarded Mar 11, 2021 at 9:25
Secure way to encrypt and decrypt a folder on Mac or Linux? [closed]
Awarded Aug 22, 2017 at 6:37
A single password manager vs password generator/hash
Awarded Nov 22, 2016 at 21:17
What place do prime numbers have in cryptography?
Awarded Oct 21, 2015 at 13:56
Strength of multiple hash iterations?
Awarded May 16, 2015 at 11:47

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