# All Questions

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### Why does HS1-SIV allow forgeries when the SIV collides, even when the PMN does not collide?

The HS1-SIV authors claim that forgeries are possible if an SIV collision occurs. However, I do not understand how this is possible unless the PMN collides too. Otherwise, the collision will be in ...
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### Is parallel, vectorized NORX nearly as fast as hardware-accelerated AES-GCM?

As I understand it, NORX gets 3.5 CPB in an unoptimized implementation. But NORX can be parallelized. With 4-way SIMD, I would expect about 7/8 CPB performance. This is nearly as good as AES-GCM in ...
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### How to encrypt an image with logistic chaotic map?

I need to encrypt color images, using logistic chaotic map. Could you please recommend an algorithm for this? All the articles that I've found on the Internet are completely unclear.
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### AES - Size of T-Boxes and obtaining T-Box values

In article "A high performance ST-Box based unified AES encryption/decryption architecture on FPGA" (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141933115001945) two 32Kb dual-port BRAMs are ...
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### How does SSL work on the browser

I recently bought an SSL certificate from a website and was able to make it work on my Apache server. As far as I know, it uses asymmetric keys and the private key is stored on the server while the ...
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### Can error correcting codes be used to guess this plaintext?

I pick a finite set of messages, perhaps the set of integers $M = \lbrace n \in \mathbf{Z} \, : \, 0 \leq n\lt10 \rbrace$, which you are then allowed to encode in any way you want (some form of error ...
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### How to provide mathematical proof of the security of a stream cipher against known attacks?

Suppose a person has invented a stream cipher and he/she wants to get it published. I have a few questions: In addition to providing detailed description of the algorithm, how would he/she give ...
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### List of post quantum cryptography protocols [closed]

What are the post quantum cryptography protocols that have been proposed until now? I know about McEliece cryptosystem, and LWE scheme. What are the others? Can you provide me a list or a website ...
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### A topic for my master thesis on post quantum cryptography [closed]

I am a master´s student. I am interested to work on post quantum cryptography. None of my professors are offering any topic this year related to post quantum cryptography. However I have the freedom ...
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### Rijndael variant using AES for key schedule?

The weakest part of Rijndael is considered to be the key schedule (I believe that this is true for all variants, including ones not standardized as AES). One solution to this problem is to use (...
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### For the LTV-FHE scheme, after how many additions should modulus switching be used?

From the LTV-FHE paper I find out that after every multiplication there must be a modulus switch to mitigate the noise in the resulting ciphertext, besides relinearization. But, assuming the ...
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### Partially homomorphic addition - not all parties present

I often see homomorphic encryption as a solution to a problem where a server wants to know the sum of $n$ users' numbers but can not know each individual users' number plaintexts. My question is: if ...
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### Can we use the sponge construct to efficiently authenticate any cipher?

The sponge construct facilitates authenticated encryption independently of the function used to mix its state. Could we use any strong cipher (i.e. AES-256) as the mixing function in a sponge to ...
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### Confidentiality then Integrity with different keys

Can anyone describe how we can do what is said in the below sentence which is in Mark Stamp crypto slides (PPTX) on slide number 101 : Can do a little better - about 1.5 “encryptions” The whole ...
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### Impact of Git's use of SHA-1? [closed]

Git uses SHA-1, and it is common to sign Git commit or tag hashes to authenticate a repo. Is this insecure now?
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### Is it safe to use a key as message in keyed hashing (HMAC)?

Scenario: User gives password. A "password key" is derived from the password (e.g. by PBKDF2). A random salt is applied. The password key is hashed with a HMAC algorithm (e.g. HMAC-SHA256), with ...
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### Why is the compression function in Miyaguchi-Preneel scheme secure?

I was reading about the Miyaguchi-Preneel scheme and had difficulty in understanding why the compression function, $h(H,m)=E(H, H \oplus M) \oplus M \oplus H$ can be called secure. The only resource I ...
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### Reykeyed AES in CTR mode as a stream cipher

Suppose one uses AES in CTR mode to generate a keystream, but every $l$ bytes the $n$ bits that would follow are used as a new AES key. Assuming that AES is a secure PRP: Is this a secure stream ...
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### Does SIV mode work for asymmetric crypto?

In ECIES and similar schemes, is it possible to use a hash of the plaintext as the IV?
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### Ciphers providing Deniable encryption?

I stumbled on the concept of Deniable encryption on Wikipedia, with the following scenario: Deniable encryption allows the sender of an encrypted message to deny sending that message. This ...
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### Is $E_{k}(x) = F_{k}(x) \oplus F_{k}( \bar x)$ PRF?

$E_{k}(x) = F_{k}(x) \oplus F_{k}( \bar x)$ and F is PRF which maps $\left \{0,1 \right \}^n \times \left \{0,1 \right \}^n$ to $\left \{0,1 \right \}^n$. Let two messages $m_{0} = 0^l$ and \$m_{1} ...
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### C implementation of GEA/3 [closed]

Can somebody please point me to an implementation of GEA/3 (an encryption algorithm) in a high-level language (preferably C/C++)? I looked for a while but could only find block diagrams and ...