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Re: Password authentication

  • Subject: Re: Password authentication
  • From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:57:55 -0800
On Feb 13, 2014, at 3:38 PM, Daniel Wambold <email@hidden> wrote:

> Any sensitive information should be encrypted with the 256 bit key, since it will be unreadable without the correct password file _as well as_ the correct password.

In that case, the file with the password seems unnecessary. You can directly convert the user-entered password into an AES key — using the algorithm in your sample, or something more standard like PBKDF — and decrypt the file with that.

—Jens
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