in reply to Small encryption script
Security is hard. I spotted two *major* weaknesses in a cursory glance.
No salting is employed. If the same password is used twice, your security could be weakened.
A low entropy password will likely be supplied. Often, the human-readable password protects the high-entropy randomly-generated password that will actually be used.
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Re^2: Small encryption script
by roboticus (Chancellor) on Apr 06, 2007 at 04:27 UTC | |
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 06, 2007 at 13:32 UTC |