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Old 12-20-2012, 01:55 AM
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The first rule of security is best phrased as "don't try to make your own, you'll **** it up". Pick an algorithm that's been well-researched and is known-strong to implement.

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Originally Posted by Gunderak View Post
I don't intend for this to be used for passwords so i'm releasing it.
You should almost never encrypt passwords, plus any encryption scheme worth its salt (hah!) is strong regardless of whether or not the algorithm used is known.
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