#discuss#cryptography

Symmetric Encryption Key Storage

I was wondering ... if say you're using something like AES(symmetric based), while you can use it to...

dewbiezAug 22 '181 min read

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I was wondering ... if say you're using something like AES(symmetric based), while you can use it to protect data, encrypting it. How do you protect the key used to encrypt the data? Where should you store it? How should you retrieve it?