# All Questions

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### AES mode scheme feedback [duplicate]

I've been studying encryption on a hobby basis, and wanted to know if I got this basic cypher construction right (this is another experiment, see the AES ECB experiment thread earlier). Encryption: ...
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I am currently working on my diploma project, a high security NFC door lock and need to exchange very sensible data. That's why I thought of PGP encryption, which is as far as I know one of the ...
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### GCM implementation

I want to write GCM implementation myself (only for research purposes). So far, I have successfully written CTR implementation (for AES), but now I ran into few problems with GCM. If I'm not wrong, ...
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### Hill Cipher the point of a known plaintext attack question

Is the point of a known plaintext attack on a Hill Cipher to get the matrix key?
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### Substitution-permutation network

Can anyone in 6th grade English explain the steps in the Substitution-permutation network algorithm or just point a link that does so? (which is included in many of the top modern algorithms) ...
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### BGV FHE scheme parameters

In their paper presenting the BGV scheme, the authors mentioned in section 4.4 that, for the RLWE variant, the ring degree d, dimension n and noise distribution do not necessarily vary with the ...
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### How does double-encryption work with a client server model

With mobile applications like Accompli (now the base for the Android Outlook application), credentials are stored. Reading from the Accompli website: Each user’s credentials are double-encrypted ...
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### Full Domain hash library

I need to know if any of the well-known crypto libraries (openssl, crypto++) supports full domain hash function. If not, what library I can use?
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### Find a polynomial time algorithm for the following problem

Let $p$ be a prime number and let $c \in \mathbb{Z}_p$ and $e \in (\mathbb{Z}/(p-1))^{\ast}$. Put $c \equiv_p m^e$. Find a polynomial time algorithm that given $p$, $e$, and $c$ will compute $m$. I ...
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### Crack RSA with additional information [duplicate]

Suppose $N=3953$, Alice encryption key is $e_A = 337$ and bobs is $e_B=23$. Eve happens to know the corresponding decryption keys, $d_A=3385$ and $d_B=2663$. Can I use this information to find the ...
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### ECIES with AES-GCM

The Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme (ECIES) describes how to derive a "temporal" key, encrypt a message (eg. using AES) and creating a MAC. However, from my understanding using AES in GCM ...
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### Affine transformation in finite field SubBytes

Can anyone please explain how this computation was done? I picked it up from How are the AES S-Boxes calculated? The affine transformation is as follows. The input bits are multiplied against the ...
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### Pseudorandom number generators based on hard problems in mathematics

I know that Dual_EC_DRBG's security is based on the ellitpic curve discrete logarithm problem, Micali-Schnorr is based on the difficulty of factorization, and MQ_DRBG is based on multivariate ...
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### SHA-512 Length Field - What is it?

If I am using SHA-512 on a message and need to determine the padding field and length field, how do I determine the length field? I think I understand the padding, but not the length field. For ...
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### Hashing - Digital Signing and Trivial Stretching

Two very basic questions: 1. Digital Signing Why is it not possible to just simply replace the hash value from the request? Examples: ...
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### Is the key deducible with AES CTR when we know about the plaintext, IV and the ciphertext? [duplicate]

Simply as stated, with AES running in CTR mode, can somebody work out the key (without brute-forcing) given we know about the plaintext, IV and also the ciphertext. Assuming we also know about the ...
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### Strategies for securing public key storage on software

I´m kind of new in this so I apologize in advance for any noob mistakes (feel free to point it out) We are developing a licensing mechanism on our software, and I would like some advice. The ...
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### Deriving a decryption equation

Consider a very simple symmetric block encryption algorithm, in which 32-bits blocks of plaintext are encrypted using a 64-bit key. Encryption is defined as C = (P⊕KL)⊗KR where C = ciphertext; K = ...
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### Self changeable key [closed]

If key changes itself when it send/receive message what would be could breaking method? So: $E: m×k$ in which $k$ is last generated key $D: c×k$ in which $k$ is last generated key \$k{_n} = ...
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### Key establishment protocols other than Diffie-Hellman

Are there any key agreement/exchange/establishment protocols which are NOT based around the Diffie-Hellman protocol or handshakes using public key cryptograaphy? DH seems to form the basis of this ...
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### Security comparison of the following PBE algorithms - PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1 Vs PBEWITHSHA256AND256BITAES-CBC-BC

Which among these conform to the PKCS#5 OR PKCS#12 standards ? Are they JCE compliant - In other words which providers have implemented them in a JCE compliant manner ? How do they fare in terms of ...
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### Are Barreto-Naehrig Curves suitable for pairing-based cryptography?

If Barreto-Naehrig Curves are suitable for pairing-based cryptography, can I use the library available at Optimal ATE Pairing?
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### How does CTR-ESSIV work ? (cryptsetup Linux)

I'm using Wikipedia and Handbook of Applied Cryptography as references. I know that ESSIV generates an initialization vector (IV) by combining a hashed key with the sector number. However, I only see ...
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### RSA algorithm in this doesnt (ever) give right decryption [duplicate]

Lets consider p=47 q=57 msg=3 n=p*q=2679 ф(n)=2576 now e=11, and inverse of e is 1171 modulo ф(n) y=msg^e=333(mod n) ///Encryption y^d=1131(mod n) ///Decryption but this is not original message ...
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### compression with codebook and Cryptography

a question about the difference between code book based compression method and key based cryptography. As I know Crypto != Compression. The Shannon said Crypto is try to reduce the information of ...
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### Python implementation of a blind signature scheme which doesn't involve RSA

RSA seems a bit creepy after the Snowden revelations and i'm looking for a simple python based blind signature library to fiddle around with. So far i've been unable to find anything. What am i ...
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### Decrypt a message which is encrypted using XOR? [duplicate]

This is a puzzle asked in a contest. Given that encryption , decryption happens as per following rule/code: ...
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### Kryptos K2 keyword derivation [duplicate]

So I've been doing some reading on Kryptos, and to be honest the keyword for K2, ABSCISSA, has a pretty weak derivation. (The method using the eee's). Isn't there a better way to come to that? I dont ...
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### Non-repudiation and digital signature of a dishonest participant

Let's assume a dishonest Alice who sends, encrypts & digital signs a message to Bob. Bob stores the decrypted message and the digital signature in a database. However Alice is a bad girl and ...
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### Reducing key shares in Damgård-Dupont threshold RSA

I'm working on understanding and implementing Damgård, I., & Dupont, K. (2005). Efficient Threshold RSA Signatures with General Moduli and No Extra Assumptions. Public Key Cryptography-PKC ...
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### Proving the complement property of DES? [duplicate]

I'm trying to show that for a given plaintext (P), key (K), and cipher (C) in the DES algorithm: ...
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### Problem in understanding Blakley's Secret Sharing Scheme

I need to implement Blakley's Secret Sharing Scheme. I have read below mentioned two research papers but still unable to understand how to implement it. Safeguarding cryptographic keys Two Matrices ...
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### Is signing a message just encrypting it with private key? [duplicate]

I have a simple question, When I sign a message (in RSA) does the program encrypt the text with my private key? Because I can decrypt it with my public key. Yes or no. Is signing a message just ...
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### Cipher for human interpretation [duplicate]

Please suggest algorithms to encrypt and decrypt text messages that can be easily performed by human in a considerably short time. It doesn't have to be really secure, but sufficient to fool ...
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### Converting a number to a member of a multiplicative cyclic group

I am currently trying to make an implementation of the ElGamal encryption for educational purposes. As I understand it, when using the encryption with multiplicative cyclic groups, one generates a ...
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### Data anonymization and search with wild-cards

Broadcast encryption technique proposed by Water et al. http://www.slideserve.com/nairi/revocation-systems-with-very-small-private-keys takes a leap from earlier schemes as it provides smaller user ...
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### chameleon signature vs regular signatures

I am trying to understand the practical usage of sanitizable signatures particularly on Chameleon Hashing and Signatures. Chameleon hash, or trapdoor function allow parties with the knowledge of the ...
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### Is RC4 +XOR secure for small data?

I need to encrypt transmission between my device (with AVR processor) and base. I create packet data - it will be encrypted into string: ...
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### Two questions on EMSA-PKCS1-v1_5

If I implement EMSA-PKCS1-v1_5 in the following two non-standard ways, what kind of things could go wrong? The padding structure will be referred as (00|01|PS|00|DER(Digest Algo)|Digest), where | is ...
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### Problems in the results of NIST PNRG suite

I am a beginner in the field of cryptography.I have problems interpreting the NIST (sts-2.1.2) suite results. After running the statistics with 100 samples (each sample of 1000000 byte length) a new ...
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### Is ASCON cipher broken?

http://eprint.iacr.org/2015/030 present several attacks of ASCON but does not have a conclusion section. I'm having troubles estimating what are the consequences on the use of ASCON. What's your ...
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### How does multi platform encrypted cloud storage work?

I'm really interested in end-to-end encrypted cloud storage and couldn't find out how following scenario could work: A user of a cloud provider which provides zero-knowledge-authentication (like for ...
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### Public key encryption and big files with NaCL

I am trying to encrypt big files using NaCL (actually PyNaCL) - see http://nacl.cr.yp.to/box.html After reading some docs, I came up with this prototype : Bob wants to send a big file to Sarah. They ...
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### PKI Infrastructure

I've got a very simple but for me a difficult question. I analyzed the public key cryptography and understand the process. But I didn't understand why is only the receiver able to decrypt to message. ...
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### How to find the factors of the modulus? [duplicate]

In the article "A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems", the original RSA article, it is mentioned that Miller has shown that n (the modulus) can be factored using any ...
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### Simplifying the zero-knowledge proof example? [duplicate]

There is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof#Abstract_example. Now I'm curious about this. Why is it not possible for Victor to stand at the entrance and watch Peggy take one path ...
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### Can one deduce the symmetric key size used to encrypt a given a piece of ciphertext?

Assume an attacker captures a piece of ciphertext encrypted with a symmetric key. He knows all the details of the algorithm used to encrypt except for the size of the key used in this case. Can he ...
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### private keys for multiple devices [closed]

I have an architecture where: a user can have multiple devices (phones) the server needs to broadcast the payload to all devices through the same channel (basically, all devices listen and receive ...