Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 14:06:25 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure unsalted or fixed salt symmetric encryption? Message-ID: <20090525140625.58995d1c@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <26face530905242257m7030933cy4a1171de7a06ee59@mail.gmail.com> References: <26face530905242257m7030933cy4a1171de7a06ee59@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 24 May 2009 22:57:35 -0700 Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com> wrote: > and was surprised that doing this to identical files yielded different > results. I then realized "openssl enc" randomly(?) chooses a salt if > you don't supply one. > > I want my backups encrypted, but I also want identical files to > encrypt identically. Thoughts? Then don't use salt - just a fully randomized key.
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