DeriveKey Method

Generates a strong cryptographic key from a password.

Object Oriented Interface

public function doDeriveKey($keybits, $password, $salt);

Procedural Interface

secureblackboxlite_cryptokeymanager_do_derivekey($res, $keybits, $password, $salt);

Remarks

Use this method to generate a cryptographically strong key of a needed length from a password.

This method uses a general-purpose PBKDF2 function with PRF1 and 2048 iterations.