Re: [openssl-users] When to use a key or password

2016-07-09 Thread Warron French
Michel, merci beaucoup, for the explanation. It does clear things up for me. I appreciate it, Warron On 7/8/2016 6:08 PM, Michel wrote: Hi, You need to remember a password. Passwords should never be stored. Keys are binary data (even if they look as text because they are hexa or base64 en

Re: [openssl-users] When to use a key or password

2016-07-08 Thread Michel
Hi, You need to remember a password. Passwords should never be stored. Keys are binary data (even if they look as text because they are hexa or base64 encoded). Secret keys can be 'derived' from a password to be used when encrypting or decrypting. Sometime you need to store an ENCRYPTED s