Re: Variable Key Stretching for v3

"Frank Pilhofer" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.passwordsafe.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:11:10 -0500, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The only way I can think of to deal with "if there will be something  
> else, such
> as a weakness in Twofish or SHA-256" is to allow more than one hash and
> encryption algorithm - i.e. add 2 more 1-byte fields:
>

A change to the encryption algorithm might also require other changes in  
the
file format. So, if the time comes to retire SHA-256 and Twofish, it might  
be
easier to just bump the file version number, as indicated by the  
(currently)
"PWS3" magic header.

Just IMHO,
Frank

-- 
Frank Pilhofer, [email protected]


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