title: Problems in an unconventional encryption scheme?
body: <p>My program includes a feature where users could encrypt certain data using a password. As not all passwords will be a proper length, are there any insecurities in fixing this by hashing the password (with a good algorithm) to generate a fixed-length key which will then be fed into AES?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: Never mind, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_derivation_function" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_derivation_function</a></p>