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Question
During a software development project review, the cryptographic engineer advises the project manager that security can be greatly improved by significantly slowing down the runtime of a hashing algorithm and increasing the entropy by passing the input and salt back during each iteration. Which of the following BEST describes what the engineer is trying to achieve?
Options
- AMonoalphabetic cipher
- BConfusion
- CRoot of trust
- DKey stretching
- EDiffusion
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