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Property SpinCount

Namespace
DocWright.Cryptography
Assembly
DocWright.Cryptography.dll

SpinCount

Gets or sets the key-derivation iteration count. Defaults to 100,000, which is what Word writes.

Raising it slows an offline guessing attack and slows every legitimate open by the same factor. Values above MaxKeyDerivationSpinCount produce a file DocWright will refuse to read back under default limits.

public int SpinCount { get; set; }

Property Value

int

Exceptions

ArgumentOutOfRangeException

The value is negative.