[cs631apue] Cypher text header

Jan Schaumann jschauma at stevens.edu
Sun Dec 4 10:58:09 EST 2016


bzhang41 <bzhang41 at stevens.edu> wrote:
 
> In the Manual page, why we need to put 16 bytes at the head of the 
> cypher text, namely the
> `Salted__12345678`, do we need this information when we decrypt the data 
> ?

Yes.  You can't decrypt the data without the salt.

-Jan


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