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Selective format-compliant JPEG encryption?
I am working towards building a format-compliant encryption system for pictures. The aim of it is to be able to obscure specific areas of a picture (i.e. faces, car license numbers...) while keeping ...
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Can you create a strong blockcipher with small blocksize, given a strong blockcipher of conventional blocksize?
Suppose I want a strong 20-bit blockcipher. In other words, I want a function that takes a key (suppose the key is 128 bits), and implements a permutation from 20 bits to 20 bits. The set of ...
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Encryption algorithm that produces dummy output on incorrect passwords
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I've been thinking about using encryption in the context of backing up files to untrusted locations (to the point of making the file publicly and widely distributed for practically ...
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What algorithm would give the shortest ciphertext for very short plaintexts?
I have to encrypt some very short messages (approx. 5 characters) and I would like the ciphertext to be as short as possible. I am currently using AES but the initialization vector (IV) is making my ...
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Format-preserving encryption implementations
I'm looking for a general, free implementation of Format-preserving encryption
as described in this article and on wikipedia.
Possibly in a well established cryptography toolkit.
My intention is to ...
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Relative security of a Vigenère cipher
Within a closed computer network, I am ciphering some plaintext data as an added security measure. This is below several other layers of protection. For various technical reasons, I am restricted to ...
