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How to avoid a chicken and egg scenario with encrypting passwords?
I am working on application that allows users to upload files containing company data and then share those files with a list of other users that have specific roles within the system.
I want to ...
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Recommended Books for Cryptography : Theory and Implementation [closed]
It is a great idea if experts in Cryptography from mathematicians to security engineers introduce books and textbooks which they think is helpful or instructive for all people interested in the ...
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Setting protocol parameters to achieve concrete security
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One issue with modern security proofs is that they are usually asymptotic. In other words, such proofs are usually formulated as follows: For any polynomial-time adversary $\mathcal A$, we ...
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Verilog simulation & synthesis of Diffie-Hellman key exchange
Is there any freely available verilog implementaion of Diffie-Hellman key exchange?
I couldn't find anything using google. So, assuming its not there I started implementing on my own.
The code is ...
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Does a public key absolutely need to be used to initiate an encrypted session?
I am a software developer working on an application with the .NET platform. This application needs to provide a secure connection and encrypt all data between the client and the server. It is a ...
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synchronization of counters in HOTP
How is synchronization of counter values achieved in the HOTP protocol?
As I understand it, the server increments its counter value only if a match (of the OTP value) is found. What happens at ...
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Undecrypt using the OpenSSL EVP API?
I'm writing a client-server encryption scheme for homework, and I've stumbled upon what might be a fatal blow to my current implementation.
When using AES-256-CBC on the two sides, it's important ...
