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Re: Safe password?
From: Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Dec 28 2005 - 22:51:52 CET
Date: Wed Dec 28 2005 - 22:51:52 CET
paul_wary@yahoo.com writes:
> Does that mean if I have the choice between AES-256 and AES-128
> combined with a 16-character password I could just as well take AES-128
> being no less secure than AES-256?
Yes, if each character is drawn from a set of 256 or fewer characters
(which is inevitable if the characters are held in 8-bit bytes).
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