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Why You Can't Just Use a Password as an Encryption Key

I used to think encryption was simple: take a password, use it as the key, done. Then I built a small encryption tool myself, and realized that's not how any of this works. This is the first post in a series where I'm documenting what I'm actually learning while building CryptoGraphy , a small Python project I'm using to study applied…

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