# All Questions

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### How unsafe is to share parts of a password

The best way to ask this question and have a concrete answer is to set a very specific example. This is the example I would be interested in reading an answer to: Consider that my friend Alice has ...
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### Proof of work for standard computers

I'm interested in a proof-of-work system that works well on standard computers without using the GPU. Properties the system should have: Seed based proof-of-work. There is no distinguished ...
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### Encrypting firmware with AES and no IV [closed]

I have an embedded device with a AES CBC engine on it that is used to ensure the integrity of the firmware. I know that CBC mode requires unique IVs to be any good, but I'm unsure if it makes a large ...
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### Can a properly implemented ed25519 private key with public underlying data be cracked?

If the underlying data is public albeit hashed with SHA-512, does that make a difference on the strength of ed25519? Please quantify the extent. Can ed25519 be cracked after a certain amount of ...
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### Why is a 2048-bit public RSA key represented by 540 hexadecimal characters in X.509 Certificates?

In the public certificate, an RSA public key specified as 2048 bits long is represented by 540 hexadecimal characters. Converted to base-2, this yields 2160 bits, 112 more than the stated 2048.
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### gnupg: display digest of key [closed]

How can I display what digest algorithm has a key? If I import a public key which has MD5 as digest, I get a warning about this weak algorith. But how can I check, what digest algorithms all my keys ...
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### Perfect Forward Secrecy with Pre-shared Key

I've recently been looking at how to do perfect forward secrecy on a unidirectional connection (server can only push messages to client, client cannot respond). What I've come up with is the idea of ...
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### Do both client and server need to implement OpenSSL protections to protect from CBC attacks

In regards to the protections implemented in OpenSSL 0.9.6d (described in section 2. http://www.openssl.org/~bodo/tls-cbc.txt). My understanding is that the mechanism prepends an empty record when ...