[cs631apue] SHA1 message digest
Jan Schaumann
jschauma at stevens.edu
Fri Dec 2 22:39:39 EST 2016
mseaton <mseaton at stevens.edu> wrote:
> What does "You should use SHA1 as a message digest function for
> generating the key" mean?
You should use AES256-CBC with a SHA1 digest, using key material derived
from the passphrase in question. That is, when calling
EVP_BytesToKey(3), you need to specify AES256-CBC as the cipher, and
SHA1 as the digest algorithm.
-Jan
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