On 16-Aug-2013, at 9:24 AM, Matt Caswell <fr...@baggins.org> wrote: > On 16 August 2013 16:46, Swair Mehta <swairme...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 16-Aug-2013, at 7:49 AM, Unga <unga...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all >>> >>> I have a requirement to encrypt files, in such a way identical files should >>> generate identical ciphertexts. >>> >>> I plan to use aes-256-cbc cipher with 128-byte long non-guessable password >>> per input file. Identical input files will be provided with identical >>> passwords. >>> >>> 1. Is it no salt the way forward for me? >> Identical salts(ivs) should work. No salt works as well. > > This would have the effect that two files which were identical at the > beginning for the first x number of blocks (but different afterwards) > would encrypt to the same first x number of blocks.
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