# All Questions

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### What are the ways public-key can be distributed? [closed]

What are the ways public-key can be distributed?
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### SEAL Homomorphic multiplication

In SEAL homomorphic encryption library, there is an internal procedure to decompose a polynomial with large coefficients into a vector of polynomials with smaller coefficients. The procedure is ...
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### Least-weak way to authenticate using only AES ECB/CBC

I have an embedded application that needs to occasionally get secure updates from a server. The only crypto library I have available for the chip is an AES-256 cipher (ECB and CBC, encrypt/decrypt). ...
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### Do reversible black box obfuscators exist?

We shall say that an obfuscator $\mathcal{O}$ is a reversible black box obfuscator if for each reversible program $P$ the obfuscated program $\mathcal{O}(P)$ is still reversible but does not reveal ...
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### Why does Paillier have poor performance?

Can anyone explain to me why Paillier crypto system does not provide good performance? I read here (pdf) that RSA and ElGamal provide better performance than Paillier algorithm.
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### Can MGF1 within OAEP and PSS be replaced by a XOF?

Do we still need MGF1 as used in the PKCS#1 v2.x specifications for SHA-3 hash functions? MGF1 is currently used for OAEP and PSS as Mask Generation Function. Now that the SHA-3 specification contains ...
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### Differential privacy with oblivious transfer

I have the following scenario: A has encrypted text, with max length $L$; B wants to know if the decrypted text, which contains one or more words from a closed group of $X$ words; A is not to be ...
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### Difference between a circuit and a normal function

I've seen the word circuit used in many crypto contexts (for example, regarding FHE in this pdf). I've always thought of a circuit as another word for a program or function. But is there a difference -...
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### RC4 Encrypting Plaintext, Key of 3 Bytes [closed]

Good afternoon! I tried to Encrypt a Plaintext of length of 3 Bytes with the Key of length of 3 Bytes, but it gave a wrong Ciphertext as I can't receive same Plaintext during Decryption process. I ...