Re: encryption question

Brian Evans wrote:
For encryption we take the entered key and generate:
salt;hash;encrypted data
For decryption the key is entered and we decrypt the data.

The reason I asked is that such schemes have to be specified with a fair amount of precision. IIRC e.g. DCPCrypt hashes the entered key under some circumstances, so if you put the same hash of same key as a field in your cipher text, you give away every piece of information an adversary would need in order to decrypt the data.
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