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Re: Question about crypto

Date 2013-08-19 07:32 -0500
From Anthony Papillion <papillion@gmail.com>
Subject Re: Question about crypto
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On 08/18/2013 05:29 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> When I run the code above, I am told that the IV must be 16 bytes long.
>> I'm assuming that the IV (I know that means "Initialization Vector") is
>> either the key OR something else I can set. But I don't know how or what
>> to do.
> 
> Does this Stack Overflow thread help?  It looks to me like you aren't
> defining an initialization vector at all.
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14716338/pycrypto-how-does-the-initialization-vector-work

Completely missed that Stack Overflow discussion. Thanks, Skip! That
does help!

Anthony

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Re: Question about crypto Anthony Papillion <papillion@gmail.com> - 2013-08-19 07:32 -0500

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