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Mimic GenerateSymmetricKey["password"] in openssl?

Posted 9 years ago
POSTED BY: O Mirza

I believe the OpenSSL command line utility cannot directly generate that key from that password. The password parameter of GenerateSymmetricKey is passed to a key derivation function called scrypt. It looks like scrypt was recently added to OpenSSL, but in libcrypto, and it doesn't look like they have an way of calling it from the command line.

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