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### Will I be able to (ab)use a FIDO U2F compliant hardware token to decrypt data?

I have heard good things about the emerging "FIDO U2F" standard. I am especially interested in having a JavaScript API for cryptographic functions that I can access through a plug-in in a browser. ...
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### Partial Homomorphic Schemes that are probabilistic

As mentioned in wikipedia there are many Partial Homomorphic Encryption(PHE) scheme like RSA, Elgamal, Pailler etc. Pailler encryption scheme seems to be probabilistic Are there any other PHE ...
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### RSA-KEM construction

"Create a random key for CCPA2 scheme, encrypt m, send it along with a PK encryption of the symmetric key. " Say in the process, the KDF is HMAC, then: get a random key (128-bit) C1 = encrypt ...
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### Engima machine decoding with PC and GPU

I saw this answer at this site about decoding a 3-rotor Engima machine's settings: How cryptographically secure was the original WW2 Enigma machine, from a modern viewpoint? And did some math for ...
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### How hard to break a cipher if it has a different key for each word?

Recently I watched the movie 'The Prestige' again but this time the cipher diary impressed me very well. I like to create my own cipher for my diary because I have some time to kill everyday after ...
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### Strong key generation using PBKDF

I know that PBKDF2 is very useful for generating strong keys. I'm trying to know is there any additional contribution of the given password to produce even stronger keys. Which key is more secure: ...
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### Does NTRU provide Perfect Forward Secrecy?

Does NTRU provide Perfect Forward Secrecy if the world would use it in an HTTPS connection?
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### Last Round in DES

I am studying DES for my Cryptoexam .As far as I understood , the initial plaintext is permuted and then the left half is called L0 and Right half is called R0. After that for each round the process ...
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### Are there cryptographic hash functions with homomorphic properties? [duplicate]

Are there cryptographic hash functions that have homomorphism-like properties? E.g. satisfying following relation $h(a || b) = h(a) · h(b)$, where $h(x)$ is hash function itself, $x || y$ is ...
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### DES S-Box properties

Two of the properties that lead to the design of DES S-Boxes are: For any non-zero 6-bit difference between inputs, no more than 8 of the 32 pairs of inputs exhibiting that difference may result in ...
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### Bit padding instead of PKCS#5 padding

Padding oracle attacks are a huge nuisance when using CBC mode encryption without authentication. Wouldn't all those padding oracle attacks be avoided if we'd just use bit padding instead? Or is does ...
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### How to prove Security of Onion Layers of encryption?

CryptDB has Onion layers of Encryption to provide wider functionality from weaker forms of encryption. How do we prove such things are indeed secure ? Intuitively It seems ok. Are there any parallels ...

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