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Re:Suspicious iOS KeePass Client by egberts1 on Sunday May 21, 2023 @11:33AM (#36021969)
Problem with AES and Salsa is that salting is required for smaller-sized password and are not considered a "hashing" algorithm; those two are block ciphers, as I recall.

No, MATSO is not open source but with an enterprise license, you can negotiate for the source code.

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Re:Suspicious iOS KeePass Client by lxgr on Sunday May 21, 2023 @11:37AM (#36022018)
AES and Twofish are both block ciphers. Neither are hasing algorithms, and you'll need a PBKDF or some other construction to derive a key for either, no?

Salsa is a stream cipher.

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Re:Suspicious iOS KeePass Client by egberts1 on Sunday May 21, 2023 @11:45AM (#36022099)
Right. thanks for the update. My note should have been consulted as you being correct. Hate my memory nowadays. Need to consult some more notes before speaking.
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