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Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 1:12 AM

Understanding 'padding' in symmetric key cryptography

Symmetric key algorithms like 3DES, AES etc operate on blocks of input data. For this to happen, the length of the input data must be exactly equal to the block length or an integral multiple of the block length for that algorithm. For example, let us Read More...

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