# All Questions

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Can any one help me decrypt this message: noohaiisee spyg iOyh h ol ceet pbcuoonnss
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### How do you apply bilinear mapping to attribute based encryption?

I'm new to both bilinear mapping and ABE. I have a vague idea of how bilinear mapping works now, but I don't understand how it applies to ABE. Can someone give me an example?
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### Breaking Vigenere via Kasiski/Babbage method? (non-programmatic)

I'm really hoping someone can explain to me what is going on in the second major component of this form of analysis. If you wish, for convenience, here's a page that already has some ciphered text ...
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### Need CryptDeriveKey AES implementation in C#

I am integrating with 3rd party software that uses AES 128 encryption. I know this is not ideal, but the choice of encryption is up to the 3rd party software. I am using C#. My problem is in deriving ...
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### Permuted Hash Table

Suppose we have a hash table, $HT$, consisting of $100$ bins.The hash table uses a hash function $H$ that is public. We all know that given value $a$ we can compute the address in the hash by ...
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### Interesting Topics for Projects? [on hold]

I hope this is not a off-topic question for the site, but I was wondering if I could get any recommendations for project topics in cryptography suitable for someone just learning basic material now. ...
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### How to create Crypto based Project [on hold]

I took Cryptography course last semester and It was very interesting. To have a more practical understanding, I thought I should create a mini project. Below is the ...
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### Poly1305 vs VMAC: is VMAC much better for long messages?

VMAC seems to me much more secure than Poly1305 on long messages (the security of the latter decreases linearly with increasing message length). Is this of practical relevance?
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### AES128 Decryption in Objective-C just slightly off

I have been asked to integrate a home-grown CRM system with a 3rd-party data service provider (DSP). The DSP has encrypted the information they are providing. I only have their decryption ...
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### RSA PKCS#1, v1.5 padding output

If I make use of RSA PKCS#1 in v1.5 what padding length is used. Basically, it is not allowed that the plaintext is bigger than the modulus. But what if the length in bits is the same (padding to ...
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### block cipher secure as ind - cpa

if we have the following block cipher found here http://imagebin.ca/v/2WGa2kAGEX3E, is it ind - cpa secure?
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### Updating values authenticated by Merkle Tree

Assume we have 4 values: $v_1,v_2,v_3$ and $v_4$. We construct a Merkle tree on top of them such that the values are leaves of the tree. I send the values and the tree to an untrusted server. But I ...
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### OpenSSL Signature different each time

I have a file that I am generating a signature for using OpenSSL, and each time I generate the signature, it is different to the last time. ...
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### Is multiplicative blinding less secure than additive?

It's easy to see that additive blinding (e.g., $x+r$ for secret x and random r) is perfectly secure in a finite field (this is a one-time-pad) and statistically secure for $r$ uniformly distributed in ...
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### Miller Algorithm of Weil Pairing implementation for Python2

I would like to implement miller algorithm for Python, but it cannot work correctly, Please help me. (1) Please tell me Miller algorithm's output of the following case. ...
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### Is there a null HMAC?

I came up with this question while unit testing a function that includes an HMAC. What is the expected behavior of an HMAC with a well-defined key and a set of data with no elements in it? Is there ...
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### What is wrong with simple concatenation in salted password hashes?

I once heard that if implementing a password hashing scheme, simply concatenating the password and salt together before hashing could lead to some subtle vulnerabilities, and I'm trying to figure out ...
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### How to find roots of equation $f(x)=0 \pmod p$, where $p$ is prime number?

$f(x)$is any nth degree equation $n>0$, how to find roots of $f(x)$ over prime modulo.
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### Research for video game: Novice cryptography concepts [on hold]

I'm making a video game which has some basic cryptography as a main base for puzzle design. I'm hoping players will get great puzzle challenge and learn a few cryptography concepts through playing the ...
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### Cardholder to Merchant SET Protocol

I have some doubts regarding the SET protocol. Let say the Alice payment information runs through a sha-1 hash function which is a one-way algorithm, irreversible to create a message digest. How do ...
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### What are possible caveats when generating a group for use as parameters for Diffie-Hellman key exchange?

As reusing a widely used group for Diffie-Hellman key exchanges might lead to far easier third-party key discovery through precomputation for that specific group, I would like to know what can ...
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### Compression in key generation of DES algorithm

Does anyone have a pseudo-code or an algorithm or even a diagram of the compression (pc2) of the DES algorithm? I can't find a relation between the bits that are dropped, even when I do it manually ...
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### SET Protocol (SET)

I would like to know if the current SET protocol uses 3DES or AES other than DES and RSA? I have look into many articles but some of them were outdated.
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### Why does a non-prime DH modulus creates a “NOBUS” backdoor

can't we do a nobus backdoor with DH modulus prime? Some have argued that with a prime modulus you can just get the order by doing p-1 and then factor it, thus it is easy to reverse. I argue that this ...
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### Encryption of Real Time UDP packet

I am planning to work on real time UDP packet encryption. I have a server which generates fixed size UDP packets at every 200ms and this message is sent to the receiver application which receives this ...
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### How to encrypt incomplete block with RSA as a block cipher?

I have a question about an RSA academic example. If we are using block-RSA with a block-size of 3 and we have this message: "android". It is broken into 'and', 'roi', 'd'. How to encrypt the last ...
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### ECDH-ECDSA Combination

I am doing research on cryptography primitives at a basic level and I faced a question on encryption methods. I understood that ECDH is an approach to for secure key exchange between two parties ...
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### How to prove that a function F isn't a pseudo random function

Let $F$ be a length-preserving pseudorandom function. For the following constructions of a keyed function $F' : \{0, 1\}^n \times \{0, 1\}^{n−1} \to \{0, 1\}^{2n}$, state whether $F'$ is a ...
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### How do substution-permutation networks work? [duplicate]

I understand what is going on in higher level. But I don't understand what's really going on in page 3 and 4 of this slide. Specifically, How $S_0$ and $S_1$ is used? What goes in what goes out? ...
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### How do substution-permutation networks work?

I understand what's going on in higher level. But i don't understand what's really going on in page 3 and 4 of this slide. Specifically, How S0 and S1 is used? What goes in what goes out? How ...
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### Common Modulus Attack not reproducible

I want to calculate a simple example of the RSA common modulus attack. However, the result is not correct and I do not find my mistake. p=$29, q=37, n=p*q = 1073, \phi(n) = 1008, e1 = 5, e2 = 11$ ...
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### How to break Universal Re-Encryption algorithm?

Let p be a prime, and g be an element of $ℤ^*p$ of prime order q. Let x ∈ ℤq be the private key, and $h = g^x$ (mod p) be the public key. To encrypt a message m ∈ $ℤ^*p$, pick two random ...
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### HW acceleration for Camellia cipher (x86_64/AES-NI/AVX2)

Modern processors support hardware acceleration for various crypto functions such as AES directly, or general vector operations which can be used in crypto ...
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### How do I solve this transposition cipher? [closed]

(88 characters): ANNHA MSUIM HDSHP CEVVA LEOVE PAERS ADYSC TNLIE LIIET PTSRO CNAFM GONCO NMAMO RLEIT MSNSY LFOOI SASEO RGA. -- My introductory cryptography instructor assigned this, I calculated the ...
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### Comparison Affine Coordinates and Projective Coordinates Addition in Excel

Kurve : EC : y^2=x^3 + x + 1 Generator:(1,7) p=23 Result in Affine use excel: P=(1,7), Q=(7,11) => P+Q=(18,20) Result in Projective use exccel: P=(1:7:1), Q=(7:11:1) => P+Q=(15:2:9) U = U1 - U2 ...
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### How to convert AES to a PRNG in order to run NIST Statistical Test Suite?

I want to run statistical tests on my implementation of AES. How should I convert it into a PRNG? Is there a standard way to go about doing this? I could not find much information about this although ...
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### Use precomputed value (ECPoint,int) in Java BouncyCastle [migrated]

I am working with window-method multiplication in affine coordinates. Window Method ...
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### Would the rotors in Enigma machines always advance by one position? Or was there a way to set this?

Before encrypting a letter the first rotor advances by one, right? So there could be a way, once the first rotor turns 26 times, make the second rotor advance two positions instead of one. Or three. ...
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### Can OTP be made practical by using stretched hash algorithms? [duplicate]

One of the main reasons for not using OTP in everydays life is that it is highly impractical - for encrypting 4GB of files we need a 4GB key that needs to be exchanged secure. I've had an idea on how ...
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### “Royal Flags Wave Kings Above” [closed]

I'm a starter to cryptanalysis and in fact to cryptology. Last night I was decrypting a message from a book that I would quite odd. It doesn't make sense. The decrypted message is "Royal Flags Waves ...
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### construction of division polynomials

I'm not sure if this is the right place for my question.... I'm trying to understand the construction of the division polynomials used in the schoof algorithm. I firstly followed the report of ...
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### Faster discrete Gaussian sampling

Our goal is find a faster discrete Gaussian sampling to solve $"SVP"$ problem in lattice: A lattice is discrete subgroup of $R^n$ such that define as below: let $\{b_1,\cdots ,b_n\}$ be a basis in ...
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### Deriving a key for HMAC, using PBKDF2

What is the recommended way to derive a key for an HMAC-SHA256, from a passphrase and salt? I'd like to compute an HMAC-SHA256. I have a passphrase, and a message. I note that RFC-7518 (JWA) ...
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### Performing simple arithmetic operations on compressed, and both compressed and encrypted data

We all know it is possible to perform addition and multiplication operations on encrypted data by means of homomorphic encryption methods. My questions are: Is there any cryptosystem that is able to ...
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### How to generate a random number so server cannot cheat?

Here is the protocol: Bunch of players connected to server. Server creates nonce and hashes it - send hash to clients as bit commitment. Clients make nonces and send hashes to server as their bit ...
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### NIST HMAC Test vectors

I am searching test vectors of the HMAC-SHA256 primitive to verify the correctness of an implementation. Without hesitation I go on the NIST website to see what they offer. While reading the ...
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### Is this the correct procedure for cycle walking using an FPE?

To encrypt a value from a set (say a range of years from 1001 to 2001) Rank the set {0 = 1001, 1 = 1002, 2 = 1003...999 = 2001} Take the value you want to encrypt from the set (year = 1995) and ...
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### OCB(Offset Code Book) authentication encryption [closed]

Can anyone give me ideas, how to implement Offset Code Book with authentication and encryption.
I am wondering how to solve the problem below: Suppose we have a $MAC$ scheme $I=(S,V)$. There is another algorithm that can find a pair of texts $(m0,m1)$, with $m0≠m1$ such that $S(k,m0)=S(k,m1)$ ...