(or Advanced Encryption Standard), a symmetrical block-cipher algorithm with a 128-bit block size, and key sizes of 128, 192 or 256 bits.
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Single-purpose symmetric encryption scheme for single files
I'm writing a simple password manager program that will encrypt/decrypt a single file (it's size will most likely stay under a few K). This is my initial file format design:
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Implementing PKCS#7 Padding on a Stream of Unknown Length?
I have a fairly simple Python program using PyCrypto to use AES+CBC to encrypt a stream of input. In order to adhere to the 16-byte input size multiple, I've implemented PKCS#7 by hand. (While I know ...
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How to choose between AES-CCM and AES-GCM for storage volume encryption
We are using the encryption built into Solaris 11 ZFS, which offers the choice between CCM (CBC counter mode) and GCM (Galois counter mode). What are the pros and cons of choosing each of these cipher ...
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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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Is the likelihood of a birthday collision linear (evenly distributed) for all ciphers? When are they not?
When discussing the Birthday Principal, in combination with the pigeon hole principal, it was argued that an uneven distribution of birthdays (bias for September and any Tuesday of the year) made ...
