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Re: Encrypting history?
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- From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Subject: Re: Encrypting history?
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:38:56 +0000 (UTC)
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Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist <at> gmail.com> writes:
> [ ... ]
>
> If you are using a block cipher, and you probably are, you should
> put a salt which changes with each save at the beginning of the
> file.
> While I don't know of an example of attacks based on this working
> on current ciphers, it's good practice, nonetheless.
Good idea. Thank you.
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Lloyd Zusman
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God bless you.
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