# All Questions

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### Designing a security system from scratch with a custom protocol, suggestions needed

For the reasons I cannot go into details, I need to design my own protocol and overall security system which will be used to establish secure data exchange between various devices (most notably ...
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### Can someone help with the following hashes? [closed]

Here are a couple of hashes. I feel it should be easy (simple base conversions?) to decode them but I haven't succeeded so far. Can someone help? ...
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### Crypting text cheating wife on iphone [closed]

Wife received text looks like Chinese with boxes I am new to cheating with adware and crypting And embedding can I buy a service or app and cut and paste or copy these texts and they are Sent back ...
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### Combining LFSRs for Stream Ciphers: Why do we need high non-linearity?

Linear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSRs) can be excellent (efficient, fast, and with good statistial properties) pseudo-random generators. Many stream ciphers are based on LFSRs and one of the possible ...
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### How to do a literature search

How do I do a literature search of the research literature on cryptography? Assume there's some topic in cryptography I'd like to learn more about; how do I search the cryptographic research ...
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### Does SRP reduce to DH key echange when shared password is not secret?

I can find JavaScript implementations of SRP (Secure Remote Password protocol), but nothing that inspires confidence for Diffie-Hellmen key exchange. I also have a separate need for SRP later. I ...
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### random number generator 10-side dice alternative

A lot of sites like this one Here, refer to 10-side dice to generate random number for otp. I was thinking about new ways to generate random numbers,letters and passwords. here what I got. to ...
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### Is the DES algorithm in OPENSSL random?

Look at the hex dumps of encrypted1.bin and encrypted2.bin . They both have same password A which was used to encrypt sampletext ...
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### Finding hash almost-collisions

A few months ago, XKCD posted a challenge to find a plaintext which hashed (using Skein 1024 1024) to a specified value. Inputs were scored based on the hamming distance between the hash of the ...
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### Cryptography based upon neural networks [closed]

I would like learn about use neural networks in cryptography. Is there any research literature on this subject? What should I do to learn about the subject? I am taking short course in neural ...
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### Security of Salsa20 with some known plaintext?

Basic question- if I'm encoding a bunch of known filetypes with salsa20, will it still be secure if the plaintext header is known? Assume that a different IV and Key are generated before each file is ...
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### Trying to better understand the failure of the Index Calculus for ECDLP

So I'm going to give you guys my understanding and then if you would be so kind as to tell me where I'm off the mark (hopefully I'm not completely wrong). So basically the index calculus for the ...
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### Does knowledge of original file size provide a cryptographic weakness?

I'm encrypting files using an AES-256 CBC cipher and an SHA-256 HMAC every 64KB in the file. Since AES CBC needs an amount of input bytes to be divisible by 16, I use PKCS#7 padding to bring the ...
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### What kind of adversary is the cloud?

I just started some work on computation over encrypted data in the cloud. We're still in the early planning stages, and to really understand the kind of security we can offer I need to determine what ...
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### Decrypting TLS in Wireshark when using DHE_RSA ciphersuites [migrated]

How can I decrypt TLS messages when an ephemeral Diffie-Hellman ciphersuite is used? I am able to expose the premaster secret and master secret from the SSL Client. Using that, how to decrypt the ...
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### Winzip AES256 vs PGP

If I use the AES256 option in Winzip to encrypt a file, is it any less safe or less secure than using pgp encryption?
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### Recommended way of adding a pepper/secret key to password before hashing?

There have been several questions regarding password hashing here and on Security.SE. A "pepper" is sometimes mentioned – an application-specific secret key. The canonical answer on password hashing ...
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### Increased CRC collision probability when adding bits to input message

The Scenario I have a message string I need to transport over a wireless network that may be unreliable. This message string is about 100 bits long, and is packaged with an 8-bit CRC. When the ...
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### How to derive formulas for addition and multiplication in Jacobian coordinates

Is there a way to derive the formulas for point addition and multiplication on elliptic curves in Jacobian format by yourself? How could I have derived these formulas by myself?
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### Many consecutive hashes to slow down brute force attack?

I've heard that hash algorithms like bcrypt are more secure because they take longer to complete, and therefore take much longer to prute force, without a noticable ...
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### Weak One Way Function

Show The function $mult(a,b)$ is weak one way if the Integer Factorization Assumption is true. I am read the proof of this enunciated but I want know if I understand this in my way. The proof use the ...
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### What does $(\mathbb{Z}_n^*)^2$ mean?

In a paper they write once, $(\mathbb{Z}_n^*)^2$. Is this the group of quadratic residues or is it something else? Here the theorem: Under the strong RSA assumption, given a modulus $n$, along with ...
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### How to hash a structure that needs to include that hash's outcome?

so I am busy writing a TCP protocol in which I send a "packet header" with each packet of data. This packet header is a structure that contains information about the data that was sent. I want to ...
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### Injecting salt into PyCrypto KDF - useful?

I have noted some sources indicate that when using a KDF like PBKDF2 (alternatively) some advocate injecting the salt at the time of execution - like this: ...
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### 2 ciphers to solve [closed]

I need to solve these two ciphers: 1. ...
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### Attacking AES/CCM with random IV

A cryptosystem is using AES-128 in CCM mode with random IV. Suppose an attacker capable of: asking the cryptosystem to encrypt a single plaintext as many times as he wants; and asking the ...
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### Are digital signatures secure for signing lots of small messages?

I need to sign the numbers from 1 to 1 billion (literally this, it's not an analogy) using a digital signature and then send these numbers in a particular order to someone. The message is not private ...
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### Solving a discrete logarithm using GDlog

I am trying to calculate an x, such that t = g^x mod p (I need to crack a weak elgamal encryption for university). I found gdlog, but I cant figure out how I can use the input to calculate my x. Here ...
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### RSA leak bits to factor N

Suppose you randomly generate large primes p and q as in RSA, and then tell me N=pq but not p or q. Then, you would like to actually let me factor N, except you should tell me as few bits of ...
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### What is a CBC Mac Scheme? How does knowing one block release other? [closed]

I guess CBC-MAC encryption relies on the previous block for encryption but how does knowing intermediate block cipher output make it insecure?
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### Show that for all integers n>2, n does not divide n^2+2 [closed]

I believe this solution can be solved by induction, I just don't know how to phrase it recursively. For all n>2, n^2+2 mod n ≠ 0 Base case n=3 3^2 + 2 =11 11 mod 3 = 2 ≠ 0. Show that (n-1)^2 +2 ...
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### Why is SRP not widely used?

SRP seems to be a very good password authentication protocol, compared to any other things used now. So why is there no popular implementations, or even no working secure implementations? I tried to ...
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### how much is secure to encrypt a password using itself (as encryption key) for storing it on a unsecure media?

I want to store a password securely on a storage (suppose in a usual unencrypted file). I use this password as AES key to encrypt itself (using AES-ECB) & then store it on the media (the password ...
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### Implementing secret reconstruction in Shamir's Secret Sharing

I am trying to implement Shamir's secret sharing in C++. I have got the generation of shares working. However, I am very confused with the reconstruction of shares. I get the part on how three users ...
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### Is there any strong enough pen-and-paper or mind cipher?

Some ciphers are talked about here, but I don't see an answer, are they strong enough, or are non-computer ciphers more or less just a toy and one should abandon using them for practical purposes?
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### What's the difference between AES and earlier block ciphers?

Is there any difference except speed and key and block size from user's point of view? Or does AES have something that ideal block cipher doesn't have?
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### DES chosen-plaintext attack in Windows [closed]

How do I do a DES chosen-plaintext attack in Windows?
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### Indistinguishability attack example

I want solve the next exercise. The author defined the experiment for the cryptosystem $\Pi$, the adversary $A$ and the security parameter $n$ as follows $\mathsf{PRIV_{EAV}}(\Pi,A,n)$ The ...
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### How to derive two keys from one password

What is the best way to generate two independent symmetric keys from one user-entered password or passphrase? Would using both scrypt and pbkdf2 achieve this?
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### session keys in an online e-voting system [closed]

I do not have much knowledge about cryptography or public and private keys, and your help will be much appreciated. I am totally a beginner, and no one from my university can help me. I am trying to ...
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### Why is the basic (fixed-length) CBC MAC construction not a secure MAC when it is used on variable-sized messages? [closed]

Why is the basic (fi xed-length) CBC MAC construction not a secure MAC when it is used on variable-sized messages?
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### Is AES really used for Top Secret stuff?

I've read almost everywhere that AES-256 can be used for Top Secret material (in the US). Is it really used or is it some kind of decoy to hide the more advanced algorithm they might use ?
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### recommendation for steganography tool? [closed]

I am trying to find a good and referenced steganography tool to make some tests, it its freeware it would be great. Does anyone knows any recommended tool for this task? I have found some free ...
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### Elliptic Curve is DH function or PKI?

can we reuse same ECC key on TLS for long terms or it must be used just once? (i mean can we use ECC like RSA?) is there patent free ECC implementation ?
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### What length should the padding be when encrypting or signing with RSA?

Does it matter what length the padding is? If so - what length should it be? (Another point: Should it be random?)
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### CBC-MAC , fixed length, all blocks returned

CBC-MAC, with fixed length message. Is it safe to return all ciphered blocks instead of the last? My intuition says it is less secure, since is gives an attacker more information. But how could one ...
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### encrypt message with one digest 0-9 instead of 01-26

How much will the security of one-time pad decrease if I use one digit from 0-9 instead of 1-26? for example plaintext = "blue" and ...
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### Encrypt a single file, chunk-by-chunk, each chunk using different key (AES)

Encrypt a single file, chunk-by-chunk, each chunk using different key. I am a security newbie (only took 2 security courses before) But currently I am using this encryption method for my Android ...
A symmetric cryptosystem have perfect secrecy $\iff$ for all distribution over the messages space, $M$, and for all $m0$, $m1$ (messages) and any ciphertext $c$, $$P(c|m0) = P(c|m1).$$ I got ...