# All Questions

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### Can a LIRA system work with cjdns or other decentralized meshnets?

LIRA (Lightweight Incentivized Routing for Anonymity) is a scheme to incentivize participants in Tor to contribute resources, in particular bandwidth. The paper talks about it being used for Tor. Can ...
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### Method and explanation for calculating difference in speed between DES and RSA

Our assignment asks us to convert an RSA speed in bytes per second to a DES speed in bytes per second. Our professor's treatment of this ("RSA is 100 times slower than DES") seems insufficient. Could ...
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### Strong RSA problem in $\mathbb Z^*_{n^2}$

Comparing to this question, assume $C, M \in \mathbb Z^*_{n^2}$, $e \ge 3$, is it hard to compute $M$ that satisfies $C=M^e \mod n^2$ when $C$ and $(n, e)$ are given?
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### Security of .net AES implementation and security of a hash MAC

My question rather splits into two sections: Is AES correctly and security implemented in the .net Framework? Are there any reviews of implementation mistakes that would weaken the security of AES ...
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### RSA and One Time Password (OTP) service

What is the expert cryptographic opinion on the following? Assume that there is a web server and a client on web page. User on the Client calls an OTP web service on the server which: creates a RSA ...
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### How compared encryption algorithm in terms of efficiency

I want to compare two cryptographic algorithms. The first algorithm is RSA, and second algorithm is ElGamal elliptic curve cryptography. Now, I’m looking for a way to compare the speed of the two ...
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### elgamal based decryption mixnet

Can anybody help me to understand elgamal based decryption mixnet? Pure elgamal can be used in mixnet (re-encryption mixnet) and its very easy, and I have implemented decryption mixnet using RSA also. ...
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### Generating Polynomials for the MPQS

I'm going to try and eventually factor RSA-100, but my current QS needs a lot of improvement, so I'm going to try and switch over to the MPQS. I'm a bit confused as to how the MPQS works, which is ...
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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 ...
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### Sigma-protocol for 3SAT problem

I have some questions from previous years exams, I hope you could help me with them. :) Let $g,h$ denote generators of a group $G$ of large prime order $n$ such that $\log_g h$ is unknown to anyone. ...
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### Quadratic Sieve Bottleneck, Multiple Polynomials an option?

After my failed attempt at trying to implement the ECM, I started working on the quadratic sieve. It works, but the bottleneck is finding smooth values over the factor base. The way I implemented it ...
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### Timestamping services authorities, utilizing Linked, hybrid and other than PKI schemes

What are well respected Cryptographic Timestamping authorities utilizing more sophisticated than just PKI (RFC 3161) schemes, like Linked, Linked and signed, distributed hash trees (maybe P2P?), ...
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### Is TOTP or a timestamp encryption a better timestamp-based authentication token system?

Are there advantages to using TOTP over encrypting a timestamp with a shared secret, in cases where the readability or ease of typing the token are not important?
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### Proper formatting of symmetric algorithm secret key

Given this description from RFC 4880 sec 5.1: The value "m" in the above formulas is derived from the session key as follows. First, the session key is prefixed with a one-octet algorithm ...
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### Most frequently used digital signature schemes in the recent years

I am looking to understand if there are any hard figures on which digital signature schemes are most commonly in use today. I'm only really interested in what is employed recently (ie. last couple ...
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### Generate RSA-2048 private key for a VERY fast decryption (don't care if it will be unsecure)

Given public standard RSA exponent = 65537, is there any (d, n) pairs so that RSA decryption becomes a trivial operation? Private key must be no less than 2048-bit. Security is not a factor at ...
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### Key Size for Symmetric Homomoprhic Encryption Over the Integers

In the paper Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the Integers, it mentions a symmetric key scheme on page 1 and 2. Key Generation: Pick a random odd number $p \epsilon [2^{N-1},2^N)$ Encrypt A Bit m: ...
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### Is there any equivalent to the apache xml security library for JSON?

I'm talking about org.apache.xml.security(santurio) Is there any equivalent library that works with JSON and provides the same set of features? (mostly AES-128 with KEK support)
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### Is this a secure method of encrypting with authentication?

My goal is to allow two clients to send files securely over an untrusted network without the need for more than one block of information to be sent. Both clients have ECDSA keys of size 256 bits. I'd ...
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### Cryptographic Disk wiping with quantum random data?

I was thinking about using 4 Quantum Random Number Generators working at the same time to create a secure disk wiping system. Basically feed the random bits into to an approved DRBG then through an ...