Examine the figure (click to enlarge). Questions: 1. What did I encrypt? 2. How many iterations (or rounds) were performed? (see answer below and video response) Answer I created a password for the GRUB bootloader in Linux and encrypted it using PBKDF2. This utilized the SHA512 cryptographic hash which ran for 10,000 rounds (iterations). The … Continue reading Key Stretching and Salting (Security+)