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223	Why is writing your own encryption discouraged?
66	Why do wireless keyboards only use 128-bit AES? Why not 256?
62	SHA512 faster than SHA256?
39	What is the difference between a HMAC and a hash of data?
29	What does it mean for a random number generator to be cryptographically secure?

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+10	Entropy when iterating cryptographic hash functions
+20	Why is writing your own encryption discouraged?
+10	Can I dynamically calculate an appropriate number of iterations for PBKDF2 based on the system time, rather than using a fixed value?
+10	What is the difference between a HMAC and a hash of data?

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11	Streaming API to authenticated encryption
11	Entropy when iterating cryptographic hash functions
11	Physical analogue for MACs
8	Encrypting or HMACing password digests
3	Infinite depth BLAKE2b tree hashing

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346 encryption × 29	77 sha-512 × 4
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208 aes × 25	47 key-derivation × 5
82 hmac × 7	45 symmetric × 5
79 sha-256 × 4	45 random-number-generator × 4

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