# All Questions

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### Security of .net AES implementation and security of a hash MAC

My question rather splits into two sections: Is AES correctly and security implemented in the .net Framework? Are there any reviews of implementation mistakes that would weaken the security of AES ...
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### RSA and One Time Password (OTP) service

What is the expert cryptographic opinion on the following? Assume that there is a web server and a client on web page. User on the Client calls an OTP web service on the server which: creates a RSA ...
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### How compared encryption algorithm in terms of efficiency

I want to compare two cryptographic algorithms. The first algorithm is RSA, and second algorithm is ElGamal elliptic curve cryptography. Now, I’m looking for a way to compare the speed of the two ...
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### Generating Polynomials for the MPQS

I'm going to try and eventually factor RSA-100, but my current QS needs a lot of improvement, so I'm going to try and switch over to the MPQS. I'm a bit confused as to how the MPQS works, which is ...
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### Differential Cryptanalysis of FEAL-4

I'm currently carrying out a differential attack on the FEAL-4 algorithm, however I have hit a bit of a wall. Basically I attacked the final round first ($K3$) using the differential characteristic ...
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### Quadratic Sieve Bottleneck, Multiple Polynomials an option?

After my failed attempt at trying to implement the ECM, I started working on the quadratic sieve. It works, but the bottleneck is finding smooth values over the factor base. The way I implemented it ...
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### Timestamping services authorities, utilizing Linked, hybrid and other than PKI schemes

What are well respected Cryptographic Timestamping authorities utilizing more sophisticated than just PKI (RFC 3161) schemes, like Linked, Linked and signed, distributed hash trees (maybe P2P?), ...
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### Is TOTP or a timestamp encryption a better timestamp-based authentication token system?

Are there advantages to using TOTP over encrypting a timestamp with a shared secret, in cases where the readability or ease of typing the token are not important?
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### Proper formatting of symmetric algorithm secret key

Given this description from RFC 4880 sec 5.1: The value "m" in the above formulas is derived from the session key as follows. First, the session key is prefixed with a one-octet algorithm ...
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### Most frequently used digital signature schemes in the recent years

I am looking to understand if there are any hard figures on which digital signature schemes are most commonly in use today. I'm only really interested in what is employed recently (ie. last couple ...
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### Sieving the sequence $x^2-n$ to recognize b-smooth numbers

I am currently programming the quadratic sieve and have several literature books / papers. I have several literature books and will take an example out of [1] for my question: [1] An Introduction to ...
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### Why $p-1$ needs large factors in discrete logarithm?

In discrete logarithm over cyclic group $\Bbb Z_p$ where $p$ is a prime or $p=q^n$ a prime power it is desired that $p-1$ needs to have large factors except for $2$. What is the consequence even if ...
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### Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the Integers with Shorter Public Keys

I want to implement Homomorphic scheme in this paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/441.pdf I successfully implemented key generation by taking lamda(λ)=2,beta(β)=4,eta(η)=4 But I am not getting ...
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### Is this a good choice of a digital signature scheme?

This is a concrete instantiation of Rabin-Williams signatures. Specifically: The private key is 2 primes $p, q$. The public key is their product $N = pq$ and is approximately 3072 bits long. the ...
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### Combining Elgamal encryption with the Elgamal signature scheme - Security issues?

For didactic (not real-world) purposes, I would like to teach other students the Elgamal encryption system and the Elgamal signature scheme. Are there known security issues when combining them? (i.e. ...
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### Use MDC to provide origin authentication for public key encryption?

Why can't we use an MDC to provide origin authentication when using public-key encryption?
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### NORX parallel speedup?

How much of a speedup can be expected going from serial NORX (6441) to 4-way parallel NORX (6444) assuming the latter is implemented as 4 word-sliced instances of the former?
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