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When truncating an AES MAC value by “w” , how do I justify that “w” is still negligible?
I'm taking an online class on cryptography at corsera.org / Stanford, and the professor is explaining that it's OK to truncate an AES MAC to $w$ bits as long as $1/2^w$ is still negligible (say $w ...
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Deriving HMAC key and cipher key from passphrase? [duplicate]
I'm encrypting a file with AES-256 in CBC mode. I needed to add an HMAC for authentication and validation of the file contents and passphrase, so I used a SHA-256 HMAC over chunks of my file ...
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Security of .net AES implementation and security of a hash MAC
Hello I wanted to ask if there is any review about the security of the AES implementation of the .net Framework?
I found nothing concrete to that question, searching the Internet.
And, but this is a ...
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