Secure unsalted or fixed salt symmetric encryption?

[RW]

On Sun, 24 May 2009 22:57:35 -0700
Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com> wrote:


> and was surprised that doing this to identical files yielded different
> results. I then realized "openssl enc" randomly(?) chooses a salt if
> you don't supply one.
> 
> I want my backups encrypted, but I also want identical files to
> encrypt identically. Thoughts?


Then don't use salt - just a fully randomized key.