# All Questions

54 views

### RSA with PKCS#7 and DES-EDE3-CBC (and padding) [on hold]

I have this smime file ...
62 views

### fully homomorphic encryption (FHE)

Please, I would like to find some hints or solution to my following problem, I would appreciate your assistance to walk with me throughout the solution Given fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) ...
30 views

### Importance of ShiftRows in AES

If ShiftRows is excluded from AES, then an attacker can attack the modified AES by simply treating $128$-bit input as $4$ $32$-bits blocks. The attacker can attack these $4$ blocks separately. ...
26 views

### Secure symmetric encryption algorithm for any-size base62 data

I am searching for a secure algorithm to encrypt base62 (or any other base) data for ids in urls. It should feature: No blocksize etc, limiting the length of the message to a factor of n If you ...
64 views

### Decrypting A Cipher Text without knowing the key or plaintext

i'm new to cryptography and i am doing a research based on cryptanalysis of vigenere cipher. If i have a ciphertext which is encrypted using vigenere cipher, is it possible for me to decrypt the ...
50 views

### How does chosen ciphertext attack on Elgamal work?

Can it be proven that attacker can obtain the full message if he knows some plain-ciphertext pairs?
61 views

### Complexity to find an preimage of a hash function

Suppose a hash function based on Merkle-Damguard construction. Its compression function is given as $H_i=E_{m_i}(H_{i-1})$, where $E_{m_i}()$ denotes the encryption of an ideal block cipher with ...
68 views

### CCA security of a system that splits messages and encrypts each packet

Propose a symmetric key based crypto-system for implementing a secure email system. This system is based on AES and CCA secure. Suppose that you have to encrypt a large message and that this message ...
29 views

### The Inhomogeneous Short Integer Solution (ISIS) problem with a clue

The Inhomogeneous Short Integer Solution (ISIS) problem is as follows: given an integer $q$, a matrix $A \in \mathbb Z^{n\times m}_q$, a vector $b\in \mathbb Z^n_q$, and a real $\beta$, find an ...
72 views

### Client encrypts AES key and send it to other clients using public key (RSA) and server?

i have implemented AES and RSA methods myself. The server generates the AES secret key and encrypts it with every new client's (public key, modulus) then it is sent to that client, the client then ...
41 views

### Blowfish ECB mode: Tools for known-plaintext attack?

I'm currently dealing with multiple blowfish-encrypted files that share the same key. All are encrypted using ECB mode judging from their appearance. I don't know what the key is but I know 64 byte ...
18 views

### Hokkaido (proof-of-Work system) and pseudo-random permutation table

This question is regarding a proof-of-work system suggested in this article "Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2005/356". The outset goal of the Hokkaido algorithm is to provide a task to somebody's ...
39 views

### ASP.NET MembershipProvider uses passwordSalt when encrypting [migrated]

I've a question about the ASP.NET Membership (from .NET 2.0), and more specifically the way it encrypts passwords (when you choose to encrypt them, and not hash then), and the way it verifies them. I ...
36 views

### Permutation parity after cycle-walking

Let $E$ be a random even permutation of the set $\{0\dots n-1\}$. We construct a permutation $P$ of the set $\{0\dots m-1\}$, for some $m\le n$, using cycle-walking; that is, computing $P(x)$ is as ...
15 views

### openssl - Recommended way to encrypt and sign S/MIME messages using openssl

OpenSSL has two command line tools, cms and smime, that can encrypt and sign S/MIME messages. Both can specify ciphers and ...
9 views

### java.security.spec.InvalidKeySpecException and Inappropriate key specification error in java program [migrated]

As a part of project implementation,I have done: 1. Generete DSA keys 2. Encrypt the private key using AES 3. Save into the file 4. Open the file and read the encrypted private key 5. I tried to ...
17 views

15 views

### A5/1 and LFSR incrementation

I am working on A5/1 and I'm not sure to all understand about it. We consider that we receive a burst(228 bits-sequence) to encrypt every 4.615 milliseconds. So when we have initialized our LFSR's ...
53 views

### Can public key be recovered from chipher text & encrypted private key?

I'd like to implement something like a write-once public/private encrypted shared secret (no better quick description for the lack of terminology knowledge). I guess, i'm trying to implement HSM. The ...
23 views

### signed message susceptible to block re-ordering , block deletion , block replication

We would implement a Public Key Cryptography (PKC) based digital signature by breaking the message into blocks and signing each block independently. One of the issues associated with digital ...
37 views

### How to figure out the size of the output of a cryptographic checksum function

There is such a putting in Bishop's Introduction to computer security, page 118 as following: Definition 8–2. A cryptographic checksum function (also called a strong hash function or a strong ...
35 views

### Low exponent attack against RSA

According to this: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~regev/teaching/lattices_fall_2004/ln/rsa.pdf One can calculate the message m, if there was no padding scheme involved. My question: is it possible to find ...
49 views

### Symmetric vs non-symmetric pairing based crypto

I am trying to find a comparison of how different pairing-friendly elliptic curves perform (in terms of security) in real world applications; I am using PBC library, and it has type A curves and type ...
17 views

### Help in uderstanding NIZKPoK notation (and how to code it) needed

Hello fellow cryptographers I have a rather silly question for you; I am aware of how Schnorrs NIZKPoK / SoK works when someone must prove knowledge about DL: y = g^x; (and how to code it) RFC ...
126 views

### Serpent 256bit Non bit sliced version (Table Sbox/IP/FP/LT/ILT) (Non-bitslice notation rules)

Good afternoon! I got some mismatches while counting Round Keys at non bitsliced version of Serpent. I have used official AES submission outputs (file ecb_iv.txt). AES submission package test vector: ...