# All Questions

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### Structure of encrypted office files

I try to find out the structure of encrypted office files (I'd like to implement something like a carving tool for finding certain encrypted file types). I try to understand the Office Document ...
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### How to properly format a PGP Message Block?

As sort of a follow up to my (currently) unanswered question, if it is correct, how do i properly calculate and format the packet that actually stores the data being encrypted? I thought I knew what I ...
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### Setting protocol parameters to achieve concrete security

Background One issue with modern security proofs is that they are usually asymptotic. In other words, such proofs are usually formulated as follows: For any polynomial-time adversary $\mathcal A$, we ...
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### SHA-512 hash collisions [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is SHA-512 bijective when hashing a single 512-bit block? Is there any guarantee that there are no collisions for all 512-bit input values for SHA-512 (every 512-bit ...
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### XSLT tranform in xmlsignature form, a part of xmldocument? [closed]

I have a HTML page(A Form) where user will enter his details. Details to enter are NameagesalarystateCity Now when user enters all details and click Button then I will create xml file containing the ...
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### Security of stream cipher based on Matrix multiplication GF(256) with randomized padding

The actual question is stated at the end of the text. Suppose you have a (grossly inefficient) confidentiality stream cipher with the following components: The keyed function ...
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### Diffie hellman key exchange on elliptic curve over an extension field [closed]

I am attempting to do a final semester project where I implement Diffie-Hellman key exchange on an elliptic curve over an extension field (2^256). Can anybody help me to generate the extension field ...
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### Openssl implementation of improved sha1 hashing [closed]

I want to use the improved sha1 hashing algorithm from the Intel blog described here Intel sha1 hashing. Currently I am using Openssl sha1 hashing in my application. I wanted to know if anybody has ...
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### john the ripper, usages [closed]

As evident from the site of john the ripper, JTR example, john can be used for finding password form a unix machine passwd file. can JtR be used to crack password ...
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### Combating traffic analysis over request-response protocols

Suppose I am to design a request-response protocol (similar HTTP). For the sake of simplicity let us assume that this is a "chat" protocol where the client can only perform two actions: Contribute a ...
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### What implementation properties of a hash function prevent safe truncation? [duplicate]

Truncating a hash function's output should, in theory, not increase the likelihood of a collision more than you would expect based on the truncated output size. This makes sense when thinking about ...
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### Is F' a pseudorandom function when F is composed with G, a pseudorandom generator?

If $F$ is a pseudorandom function, is $F'$ also a pseudorandom function in the following: $$F'_k(x)=F_k(G(x)) \space \space \text,$$ where $G$ is $a$ pseudorandom generator? Also, does the other ...
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### Can j-invariants be used to decide which elliptic curves are suiteable for cryptography?

The j-invariants classify the elliptic curves up to isomorphisms (if we suppose to work in the algebraic closure). Is this classification used in some way to decide whether or not an elliptic curve ...
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### Standard serialization format for libsodium-based messages

Does anyone know of a standardized serialization format which can be (or already is) widely used for encrypted messages? For a variety of reasons (mostly complexity, age and poor support across a lot ...
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### Block cipher does not provide security by itself

What is this statement all about? When I look at a block cipher it seems pretty hard to break it and the mathematics behind insure a good complexity. It may refer to key generation, initialization ...
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### Sharing an encrypted file between a group of people

Is there any way to share an encrypted file with a group? In the other words, can I encrypt a file with a public key so that each person in a group decrypt it with his/her private key? Is there any ...
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### How to encrypt a file for random access

I am a programmer familiar with C/C++ and Python. Lately, we got an assignment from a team asking us to work on one of their projects: we need to make a small program to encrypt a large file using ...
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### SHA-1 colission resistance proof

I'm searching Why the SHA-1 is collision resistance? Anybody could help me with the proof or say me where I can find this proof?
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### How to decode an OTP message?

First off, I'm extremely sorry if this comes off as a "homework dump", but to clarify, it isn't. I don't want the answer, I want to know how to get to the answer. My cryptography professor gave us an ...
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### What security flaw exists in MAC authentication scenario?

What security flaw exists (if any) in the solution of this non-encrypted authentication scenario? An unencrypted message passes one-way from computer A to B. Its transmission is viewable by the ...
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### Custom crypto library in C

I will be making (in the near future) an app that will contain some pretty heavy crypto. As it is possible that my app will be ported to different devices (initially it will be iOs only, but Mac, ...
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I have just read about the perfect security of an OTP encryption and what came to my mind was that what if the Pad used for encryption/decryption did not have to be transported separately from the ...
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### Is there an algorithm for factoring N, which is just as simple as this one, but faster?

I found a simple algorithm for factoring semiprime numbers, you can read about it in Factoring Semiprimes and Possible Implications for RSA. It basically works like this: You reverse the digits in ...
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### Which attacks can be avoided by the use of OFB instead of ECB?

For a file encryption program, I was told to use Output Feedback mode (OFB) instead of ECB (Electronic code book) mode. Which attacks can I avoid by this choice?
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### Is it safe to use XOR to encrypt data key using master key

I am implementing a hierarchical key system with a randomly generated master key and many randomly generated data keys that should be encrypted using the master key. I am wondering what the best way ...
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### Sharing a secret key between many users

I would like to know if there is any security issue in sharing a secret key (of an asymmetric cryptography) between several users. I know that this secret key is no longer "secret", so it's no longer ...
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### When is a cipher considered broken?

We've all read how some people claim AES is broken because there was supposedly a way to get the plain text from a cipher text faster than brute-force. But is this the definition? Is a cipher broken ...
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### Loss of data due to encryption

Could any kind of encryption method (AES, etc.) lead to data loss like in lossy compression? I'm interested if data (lossy compressed, lossless compressed, uncompressed) that is encrypted and ...