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miroslavpejic85
cryptopocket
Visual Basic .NET2022–2022
miroslavpejic85 / cryptopocket

cryptopocket

🔐 Key-based encryption and decryption for secure data handling

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
44GitHub stars
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🔐 Key-based encryption and decryption for secure data handling

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Observed mentions: 2022-01-04 19:33:52 UTC to 2022-01-04 20:24:55 UTC.

012022-01-04 19:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-04 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJan 4, 19:002022-01-04 20:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-04 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 4, 20:00

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From a very quick cursory search: this is using VB's `Rnd` to generate random "keys," which is a massive warning sign[1]. `Rnd` is not cryptographically secure[2] and you should not use it for anything remotely close to key generation. Edit: I also can't find any evidence that this tool changes the default block mode for `RijndaelManaged`[3], which is CBC. Without any other mitigations (which I can't find), this makes this tool vulnerable to a chosen ciphertext attack. [1]: https://github.com/miroslavpejic85/cryptopocket/blob/main/sr... [2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/language/referen... [3]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.security....
In Show HN: CryptoPocket, Encrypt anything then Decrypt by providing a required key

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