Re: Question on GenerateIV and GenerateKey

From: Dominick Baier [DevelopMentor] (dbaier_at_pleasepleasenospamdevelop.com)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:56:11 -0800

Hello Greg,

you have to store the IV and Key yourself, e.g. you can prepend the IV to
the data you are encrypting (as it is no secret).

i have a sample up on my blog - check it out.
http://www.leastprivilege.com/PermaLink.aspx?guid=f73ca1e0-bcfa-4563-862f-eb06ab317075

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Dominick Baier - DevelopMentor
http://www.leastprivilege.com

> When a PC executes GenerateIV or GenerateKey, is the key and IV
> automatically stored somewhere on the PC or is one out of luck if they
> don't manually store the key and IV in order to decrypt any document
> that was encrypted using the key and IV?
>

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