Why not just store the salt with the data in the same file? Its not as though the program needs to maintain the files' binary compatibility with anything since the encrypted file isn't supposed to be readable by any other program other than the decryption program.
Comments
Why not just store the salt with the data in the same file? Its not as though the program needs to maintain the files' binary compatibility with anything since the encrypted file isn't supposed to be readable by any other program other than the decryption program.
Actually, that's exactly what I proposed in my pull request[1], but it got rejected :(
[1] - https://github.com/kaepora/miniLock/pull/14