Re: SHA Question

From: Mika Bostrom <bostik+news.no@bostik.iki.fi>
Date: Wed Dec 28 2005 - 09:43:58 CET

On 2005-12-28, Ichinin <gurgel@postmaster.co.uk> wrote:
> Tom wrote:
>> They're not salt bytes if they're static. That actually doesn't make
>> it any harder for the attacker.
>
> What to call it then? "pre-/appended junkbytes that go in with the
> passphrase"?

Padding?

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