On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Chris Love wrote: > > > > I am new to this whole encryption thing, but I need some assurance. > > We get a key generated for us from OPENSRS, but where do I get an > > Initilization Vector (IV) for DES? Can I just make something up?
You can make anything up. I bevlieve it has to be 8 bytes. But the IV is used to seed the encryption routines. So if you use a constant number, the easier it will be to crack. Generally, encryption APIs have a random IV generator. -- Robert Dale digital mission llc
