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I’ve never done any encryption before, but I’ve been all over MSDN and google. I finally got something working.
I’ve seen this a ton of times:
Dim IV() As Byte = {&H12, &H34, &H56, &H78, &H90, &HAB, &HCD, &HEF}.
My question is this – do the hex digits inside the array have any significance? I just find it terribly odd that these particular numbers would be used SO often otherwise.
It doesn’t matter. Anything can be in the initialization vector (as long as both sides use the same values in the vector). These values are used in examples because they are simple…
Read more about the initialization vector here.