analysing cryptographic algorithms, potentially uncovering weaknesses in them (e.g. "breaking" them or casting doubts on their actual security)

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Cryptographic Symmetric Stream Cipher

Let me know a cryptographic symmetric stream cipher system with only two functions say S() and P() and it should satisfy the following conditions: There will be two independent computers say M1 and ...
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Chosen Plaintext Attacks

Assuming the ability to launch Chosen Plaintext Attacks (CPA), how many oracle calls an attacker needs to break the affine cipher? and how
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MD4 First preimage - state of the art

What's the state of the attack to get the first preimage on MD4? Is it still this http://www.di.ens.fr/~leurent/files/MD4_FSE08.pdf in 2^102 ?
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Questions on rank-attacks in Multivariate Cryptography

While reading this article on rank attacks on STS (a public-key scheme based on Multivariate Quadratic (MQ) equations), I stumbled upon some claims that I've also seen in other presentations on ...
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Differential Cryptanalysis of FEAL-4

I'm currently carrying out a differential attack on the FEAL-4 algorithm, however I have hit a bit of a wall. Basically I attacked the final round first (K3) using the differential characteristic of ...
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Security of stream cipher based on Matrix multiplication GF(256) with randomized padding

The actual question is stated at the end of the text. Suppose you have a (grossly inefficient) confidentiality stream cipher with the following components: The keyed function ...
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How compared encryption algorithm in terms of efficiency

I doing to compare two algorithm cryptography. first algorithm is RSA cryptography and second algorithm is El Gamal elliptic curve cryptography. now I want a way to compare between two algorithm by ...