# All Questions

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### Decrypting a blowfish cipher with three keys

Disclaimer: I'm pretty new to cryptography and I don't have a strong mathematical background. I apologize in advance if I missed something blatantly obvious. I participated in a security CTF this ...
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### Public-key Cryptography: I need a technical answer [closed]

So, I already understand the point of Public-key cryptography, and how it's supposed to work. I understand the basics, and I've seen way to many diagrams. What I haven't seen enough of, however, is ...
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### Is there a method/protocol to validate a self-signed certificate by comparing a shortened hash?

I'm working on a solution where an iPad should connect to a server software running on a laptop using TLS with a self-signed certificate that was automatically generated on the laptop during the ...
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### Given a prime exponent e and a prime number n, find b, where b^e = 1 mod n

Can anyone help me with the following problem. Given a prime exponent $e$ and a prime number $n$, find $b$, where $b^e \equiv 1 \bmod n \land b > 1$. For example, $b^5 \equiv 1 \bmod 11$ how to ...
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### In Shamir's (t, n) secret sharing scheme why don't use infinite field? [duplicate]

Well, we use finite fields to select shares. What happened if we use infinite fields.then will the scheme be vulnerable? Easy to break? Or share generation and reconstruction will be difficult? ...
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### Given C is a code of length n. Containing M code-words with a distance d

I'm studying for my exam and came across this question below. I don't understand how to get $d$. I get $C$ is a code of length $n$. Containing $M$ code-words with a distance $d$. $(n,M,d)$ But how ...
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### How does DH work when combined with ECC or RSA?

I know that Diffie-Hellman is used to create keys in a secure way over an insecure channel. But there is one thing which I cannot understand: I see that a lot of sites use ECC or RSA alongside DH. ...
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### Binary format of encrypted PGP private key?

Short Version of the Question: I would like to remove any predictable information from an encrypted private keys binary representation. Does anyone have a hint where the binary format for encrypted ...
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### Is the use of AES in LoRaWAN correct?

I'm reading about LoRaWAN (specification). This network protocol has a particular way to encrypt data, detailed in the part 4.3.3.1. Here is a recap of how the encryption work, as I understood it. ...
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### Are there any high level memory-hard PBKDF constructions?

The PBKDF2 construction from PKCS #5 v2 has the convenient feature that it can be implemented using only standard interchangeable cryptographic primitives. Specifically, it only requires the ...
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### How does the input of (0..11) (512 bit) impact on the SHA-1 algorithm [duplicate]

If my H0(A0=B0=...=000hex) I think i wouldnt´t change anything and and my output for Round 1 would be K1 = 5A827999(hex)
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### Error Detection/Correction Code-Then-Encrypt

I've just studied about the error correction schemes and encryption. First rule when using EDC/ECC is to first encrypt and then calculate them, and the major motivation we were told is that "EDC/ECC ...
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### Secure Cipher Suites supported by JDK versions [closed]

I'm a n00b to cryptography. I've been searching through oracle's java docs, ssl labs, googling and more googling attempting to find an up to date list of cipher suites considered secure for the ...
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### What is the recommended number of iterations for Argon2?

I've recompiled my operating system ("LionBSD" based on FreeBSD) to use Argon2i as the default password hashing algorithm in crypt/libcrypt. I'm wondering what the recommended number of iterations ...
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### A few questions about CRC basics [migrated]

I am an electronic engineer and have not found it important to consider CRC from a purely mathematical perspective. However, I have the following questions: Why do we add n zeros to the message when ...
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### How much bandwidth is used in a typical IKE/ISAKMP initialization?

How much bandwidth is used in a typical IKE/ISAKMP initialization? How many UDP packets are sent in each direction, and what is their typical size? I'm referring to initialization of IPsec via IKE/...