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Wallet encryption has extra 0x10 bytes on the end of keys #933

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Found by etotheipi, likely due to this comment being wrong:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/crypter.cpp#L68
This hurts security by making it easier to brute force, but not significantly, should be easily fixable.

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