Jeremy Hylton jeremy at alum.mit.edu
Wed Jan 17 18:02:05 EST 2001

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There's more to securing passwords that just picking an encryption
algorithm -- and keyed hashes seem to be more common that encryption.
PKCS #5 describes one good way to encrypt and decrypt data using
passwords.  It's implemented in Pisces.

PKCS #5: http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/pkcs/pkcs-5/
Pisces: http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/software/pisces/

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