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  • What are your risks? Commented Dec 23, 2020 at 1:01
  • Would you mind elaborating on that question? Commented Dec 23, 2020 at 1:09
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    eff.org/keeping-your-site-alive/evaluating-your-threat-model Commented Dec 23, 2020 at 1:12
  • "Is this a secure method?" -- secure against what? Commented Dec 23, 2020 at 15:01
  • I am asking this question because i have seen several other similar situations where file encryption is involved, and it is said to generate several random keys, then using pbkdf2 to generate another key which is used to encrypt the random keys, then extra bytes from the pbkdf is written to the header of the file to make sure a correct password is supplied during decryption, my point is that it seems more complicated than what i have proposed in my question, but both come to the same result. Commented Dec 23, 2020 at 15:49