# All Questions

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### How to choose the appropriate public (i, m) and private (j, m) keys?

I studied some encryption and decryption and I have found some very interesting problem to solve on the internet. I hope I am writing to right site - there are so many in StackExchange otherwise I ...
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am sorry, an a beginner, so please forgive me if i make mistakes, so here is what I understood: PBKDF2: uses HMAC, so, the message is the password, and the key that crypts the message is the salt? or ...
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### Reversing SHA1 (don't know the correct term)

Given sha1(pad(A) || pad(B)), where B is known, can I calculate sha1(pad(A))? pad(A) means its length is exactly 1 block (64 bytes for SHA-1) If yes, for which other hash functions it will work too? ...
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### Size of Parameters in Polynomial Key-Splitting Algorithm

I've seen the elegant way of splitting a key among different people so that only a certain number need to be present to re-compute the key, yet nobody has enough information to re-compute the key on ...
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### reduces the coefficients of a modulo 3 on NTRU

i'm still don't understand about 'reduces the coefficients of a modulo 3' on NTRU tutorial $a = f*e = 3 - 7X - 10X^2 - 11X^3 + 10X^4 + 7X^5 + 6X^6 + 7X^7 + 5X^8 - 3X^9 -7X^{10} \pmod{32}.$ Note ...
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### Solving congruences using PARI

I'm having trouble finding info in the docs about how to solve a system of congruences. The closest I can find is 'matsolvemod' in here: http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/dochtml/html.stable/Vectors,...
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### How to secure a mental poker protocol? [closed]

I would like to implement a mental poker protocol in a secure fashion. How should I go about that without (preferably) infringing on the Mental Poker Framework patent?
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### Cryptographic Primitive Method

Is there any cryptographic primitive bijective (one-to-one and onto) function for creating cryptographic tools like symmetric encryption/decryption, Hash code generator, MAC, HMAC and Random number ...
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### Kryptos : K1. What is the origin of the “palimpsest” keyword?

I'm studying the Kryptos sculpture with its cryptographic puzzles K1 to K4. I understand that the keyword "palimpsest" was reverse-engineered using the tableau (and brute-force computer processing), ...
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### How to plot the distribution of a ciphertext?

Is there any plot or visualizing program that can plot the distribution of a plaintext and then the distribution of the ciphertext after applying a ciphering encryption algorithm? I am interested ...
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### Design criteria for AES

I hope somebody can help me understand the design criterias for AES. Therefore, I would be really thankful if somebody could explain "non-linearity" in this context. A criteria for the s-box in AES ...
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### Zero Knowledge auth schemes with weak secret

In Zero Knowledge auth schemes the public DH factor of each peer is encrypted with a potentially weak pre-shared secret and the resulting ciphertexts are exchanged over an insecure channel. Why is no ...
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### Polynomial for secure communication

Can we use a polynomial $P(x)$ to securely communicate ? For example Alice & Bob agree on a degree of a polynomial. The value $x$ & the coeficients are generated from a seed using a hash ...
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### SSTP MSCHAP-V2 Authentication before SSL or after SSL Session

So with the recent news that there's a lovely new tool to crack MSChapV2 packets. So the question I have is on a SSTP Connection is the MSChapv2 handshake encrypted pre SSL setup or post. Obviously ...
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### Combatting traffic shape analysis with spurious packets

I was reading a question about combatting traffic analysis, and a thought occured. If I send random junk messages periodically, would that defeat traffic analysis? The messages would contain some ...
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### Do these 2 KSA shortcuts weaken RC4?

Alice securely gives Bob a secret key so they can exchange 10 different messages encrypted with RC4. (Messages will include a counter for uniqueness and a MAC for authentication.) For each message ...
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### Implementing Paillier Signature Scheme in Delphi

I've been trying to implement the Paillier Signature Scheme in Delphi, but I can't get it to work and I don't know where the problem is. First of all, I got my info about the scheme from this paper. ...
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### How to take SHA-1 safely for my particular case?

Let me ask about my toy passwords generator program X5 which I want to improve. X5 uses a secret key and a public key to generate a password.Where any public key is supposed to be known to hackers in ...
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### Is there a TLS extension for generating unique IVs for AES GCM?

Since reusing IVs is death for AES GCM, it seems like using the fixed IV in the TLS connection state is a phenomenally bad idea. It wouldn't even seem to be a good idea to use the salt + counter ...
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### Advantage of attacker in CPA secure IBE

In CPA secure IBE systems, the advantage of attacker (A) is defined as absolute value of $$Pr[b=b^{'}]-\frac{1}{2}$$ Can someone please explain this to me in a few words? Where exactly does that ...
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### Is it possible to extract the decryption key from a locked android device

Is it possible to extract the decryption key from a FDE android device while the screen is locked but the phone is powered on. Is the data only safe when the phone is off ?
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### Chosen Ciphertext Attack on the Public Key in PGP

In Secrets & Lies (2000), Schneier describes a chosen ciphertext attack on the public key under PGP: "Since RSA and ElGamal are malleable, known changes can be made to the symmetric key that ...
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### What is proper size of window Using RSA Window method?

I want to Use Window method for RSA modular Exponentiation. because of SCA. But I don`t know what is proper window size.
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### Get secret_value from multiple hashes md5(known_value_n + secret_value) [duplicate]

The attacker knows multiple hashes like md5(known_value_n + secret_value), for multiple known values. Does it help him to discover secret_value better then just single md5(known_value + secret_value)? ...
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### How do you work out the private key in a RSA cryptosystem knowing a certain public key?

The public key: n = 85 and e = 19 I know that n is the product of two prime numbers, now is it right of me to figure them out by process of elimination which I got p or q equals 17 and 5. Or is ...
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### How to decrypt an RSA ciphertext given an oracle providing the lower 8 bits of decryptions?

I have access to an oracle that can encrypt and partially decrypt a number with RSA-1024 algorithm. For encryption: $$C = M^e\bmod n$$ But for decryption, result will ...
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### DROWN - decrypting ServerVerify message is not enough?

I have read this article, but I can't understand why after decrypting ServerVerify, the client needs to send the export grade PMS again... When exploiting these flaws the attacker will send its ...
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### Fully or partially Decrypting Data with Multiple keys

Is there any good paper or research carried out till now that a data is encrypted by a single key or onwer(user) and their are 2 or more decryption keys. One key can decrypt the entire data. Other ...
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### How robust is my coded output?

I create codes and ciphers and as a hobby and I was wondering if there was any outfit that would 'test' your output to see how resilient it is. Is there a group anywhere that will accept code, try to ...