# All Questions

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### Does“ssh-keygen -t ecdsa -b 256” produced what is called a ECDSA SHA256 key pair?

I am a bit lost in understanding what I read on authentication, signature, etc. Is the size of the ECDSA keys produced by ssh-keygen -t ecdsa -b 256 linked to the ...
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### Does OpenSSL support XTS?

I have OpenSSL 1.0.1i 6 Aug 2014 and I am experimenting with various settings. I tried using aes-256-xts but all I get is this: ...
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### Is AES's parity key-dependent?

Is the parity of the permutation of the set $\{0,1\}^{128}$, defined by AES encryption for a certain fixed key, dependent on this key? DES, and any pure Feistel cipher, has even parity for any key. ...
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### A simulation for the BB84 quantum key distribution protocol

I am looking for a Python/Java/C/C++ (any programming language, actually) simulation for the BB84 qkd protocol. I am very new to this field and I just want to better understand how it works and maybe ...
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### Verify signed file using GPG by passing in signature hosted online rather than stored locally (i.e. in keyring)? [migrated]

Is it possible to pass the URL of a GnuPG signature when executing a verify query against a signed file? For example, instead of: gpg --verify file.txt Is there ...
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### Protection of Elliptic Curve Implementations against side-channel attacks [on hold]

Recent fast elliptic curve implementations, for example a presentation at Eurocrypt 2014 (earlier presentation slides, the paper) talks about protection against only timing attacks. Why only timing ...
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### Does a stream cipher require a KDF when it's key is variable length?

RC4 has a variable length key. Is it still necessary to use a key derivation function, such as PBKDF2, to initialize it? Would using a single character password weaken it's output when compared to a ...
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### Security of chameleon hash functions

With the knowledge of the trapdoor, we are able to compute the same digest for differents messages. I've read that given two messages $m$, $m'$ and two numbers $r$, $r'$ such that ...