Is a random string good for an AES-256 instance I have a randomly generated string of about 256 characters long. This string is hashed to for a key and initialization vector for a program running on the .NET framework 4.8. Is this method secure from a professional point of view?
The Following Code Is Now Using The Password Derive Bytes Function, All Values Will Be Changed Accordingly
    string Password = &quot;Example&quot;;
    byte[] IV = {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15};
    byte[] Salt = Encoding.ASCII.getBytes(&quot;Salt Example&quot;);
    PasswordDeriveBytes pdb = new PasswordDerivedBytes(Password,Salt);
    Aes Alg = Aes.Create();
    Alg.Key = pdb.CryptDeriveKey(&quot;Aes&quot;,&quot;SHA256&quot;,256,IV);
    Alg.IV = IV;

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