Re: What are the chances of this encrytion being broken?

On 28/03/25 04:56, Marcel Logen wrote:

| user15@o15:/tmp$ openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -in 511bytes.txt -pass pass:1234 -pbkdf2 -nosalt | wc -c
| 512
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-nosalt => 512

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I think I have got my head around it now.
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Openssl adds salt by default.
At least 1 byte of padding is always added ( up to 16 )

Hence with -nosalt
511 -> 512
512 -> 528 ( one block full of just padding )
513 -> 528
527 -> 528
528 -> 544