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### IES: What security has the asymmetric primitive to provide?

I think most of us know the notion Shoup introduced of KEM/DEM (Key encryption material / data encryption material) which is used for example by the (famous) ECIES, where the key is the hash of some ...
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### Is there a way to “shorten” a Merkle chain?

If I have a Merkle chain of 3 items, is it possible to create a zero knowledge proof of the existance of a correct chain between hash 1 and hash 3? Editing to clarify (Thanks Ricky), what I mean my a ...
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### Obliviously computing the Least common multiple of two poylnomials

Consider I have two polynomials $f_1$ and $f_2$ of the same degree. I want to secure them (using any kind of encryption except FHE) and outsource them to an untrusted server. I want him to compute the ...
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### request for data to test deterministic ecdsa signature algorithm for secp256k1

I’m implementing the RFC 6979 procedure to compute a message signature. I want to test my program on the secp256k1 elliptic curve. Note the “k” in secp256k1, i.e. the Koblitz curve. If you have the ...
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### PRG variant as a commitment scheme

I would like to use a PRG in order to achieve the commitment properties (i.e. Hiding and Binding), however, if we look at a general PRG we cannot state that it has the Binding property. First I show ...

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