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Re: Password Based Encryption

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Date	Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:27:36 -0700
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On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:04:07 -0400, William Colls
<william.colls@rogers.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>I am working on a project in which we will need to encrypt some files. 
>For reason beyond my control, we will have to use Password Based 
>Encryption, and for the most part we have that working. However, I have 
>not, so far, been able to find any guidance that we can give our users 
>with respect to the password it self: Minimum length? Maximum Length? 
>Does case matter? We assume that the usual rules for "Strong Passwords" 
>will apply.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jce.html
If will do most of the well known types of encryption.

If you need something very lightweight that you can verify for
yourself contains no trapdoors, see
http://mindprod.com/products.html#TRANSPORTER
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
When you were a child, if you did your own experiment
to see if it was better to put to cocoa into your cup first
or the hot milk first, then you likely have the programmer gene..

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Password Based Encryption William Colls <william.colls@rogers.com> - 2012-04-02 22:04 -0400
  Re: Password Based Encryption Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-04-02 22:13 -0400
  Re: Password Based Encryption markspace <-@.> - 2012-04-02 19:26 -0700
  Re: Password Based Encryption Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-04-02 23:27 -0700

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