Is the salt value a secret or can it be stored in cleartext just like the IV?
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What is a cryptographic "salt"?
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Is it safe to use the hash of the data as the key to encrypt them?
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Why is $H(k\mathbin\Vert x)$ not a secure MAC construction?
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Can CBC ciphertext be decrypted if the key is known, but the IV not?
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Best data type to store money values in MySQL
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Is this workaround used by my book to find the value of $1/0$ legitimate?
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Sanitizing global string attributes - necessary or not?
69864
Using CBC with a fixed IV and a random first plaintext block
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Is Stack Exchange safe from Heartbleed?
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Salts, how does the script know what the salt is?
79760
Cannot store a value in local storage
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Encrypting and/or decrypting ciphertext with the provided Initialization Vector (IV)
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Store Encrypted Data in Data Extension
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How to protect text from being split by a float?
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Why does `md5sum` not give the same hash as the Internet does?
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How to salt PBKDF2, when generating both an AES key and a HMAC key for Encrypt then MAC?
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Is it okay to use an HMAC of the plaintext and a (possibly distinct) key as the IV for symmetric cryptography?