Editing Padding (cryptography) (section)

==See also==
* [[Chaffing and winnowing]], mixing in large amounts of nonsense before sending
* [[Ciphertext stealing]], another approach to deal with messages that are not a multiple of the block length
* [[Initialization vector]], [[salt (cryptography)]], which are sometimes confused with padding
* [[Key encapsulation]], an alternative to padding for public key systems used to exchange symmetric keys
* [[PURB (cryptography)|PURB]] or ''padded uniform random blob'', an encryption discipline that minimizes leakage from either metadata or length
* [[Russian copulation]], another technique to prevent cribs