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Signature schemes for underpowered devices (8bit microcontroller)
I am currently researching into a small scale home automation system, aiming for cost. The system architecture is basically one master and several slaves which are connected in parallel.
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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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Additive ElGamal cryptosystem using a finite field
I'm trying to implement a modified version of the ElGamal cryptosystem as specified by Cramer et al. in "A secure and optimally efficient multi-authority election scheme", which possesses additive ...
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Is this a correctly formatted PGP session key packet?
RFC 4880 may be full of information, but it can be incredibly vague at times, so im looking for someone who actually knows the answer to this.
Given this public key:
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What is the computational cost of a public key certificate signature verification?
What is the computational cost of a certificate signature verification in terms of exponentiation, multiplication and other computation operations?
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How to distribute session keys in public key cryptography?
In public key cryptography we can also use session keys which are symmetric. How do the sender (say a server) provides this session key information to its clients?
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Types of Cryptography for a 4-8 bit microcontroller
This is more of a research question.
I was wondering what types of crypto algorithms would work best on a small 4-8 bit micro controller. I recently read a paper called Security Considerations for ...
