Re: Salting with hash data

Ilmari Karonen <usenet2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Presumably there should be some random data tacked onto each card
number before it is encrypted, otherwise this will offer little
protection against brute force guessing.

Yes, that would be part of the encryption mode, PKCS #1 whatever the
current version is, or whatever.
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