# All Questions

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### Are digital signatures using preprocessed paper pads possible?

My idea was, given that a computer could produce some sort of lookup tables on paper, could then a human use those lookup tables to create a system for digital signatures? This was really an idea for ...
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### What are some hashes that do not exhibit the avalanche effect?

I do not know much about cryptography. But, I'm in a situation where I need a hashing method that does not exhibit the avalanche effect. I tried Googling but couldn't find anything.
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### Could this alternative hash based MAC construction be as, or even more secure than an HMAC?

Begin hashing (Key||Message) Encrypt the hash state (or some part of it, such as the first 128 or 256 bits), with the key. Add the encrypted hash state to the ...
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### Inversion Free Direct Conversion between Twisted Edwards (X,Y,Z) and Montgomery (X,Z)

The Wikipedia page for Montgomery curves shows how to convert points on a twisted Edwards curve to and from points on an equivalent Montgomery curve. However, their description and the original ...
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### What is the difference between online and offline brute force attacks?

I read some papers saying a certain scheme is secure for offline brute force attacks, but vulnerable to online brute force attacks. I wonder the difference between the online and offline brute force ...
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### Does failure of indistinguishability of encryptions imply lack of CPA-security?

Suppose we have an encryption scheme that fails the indistinguishability of encryptions test. That is, given messages $m_0, m_1$ and a ciphertext $c_b = Enc_k(m_b)$, where $b \in \{0, 1\}$, the ...
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### Encryption on mobile devices? [closed]

I have studied the basics of cryptography, so it would be okay to say that I am familiar with the concepts of Cryptography (Theoretical). I have surfed the net for days to implement my theoretical ...
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### On composition of encryption schemes

If we composed (as in function composition) multiple CPA-secure encryption schemes would the result also be CPA-secure?
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### Is there an asymmetric One-Time-Pad? [duplicate]

Is there something like a perfect asymmetric crypto-algo? Is there proof that there must be one or not. From a logical point of view it seems to be possible to design such algorithm if your keysize is ...
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### Finding patterns in a gambling game [closed]

I'm working on a program that I hope it will help me to get better chances on a gambling game. I have a very large database of numbers how occur in this game and my program pass through those numbers ...
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### Chosen-plaintext attack

Let F be a block cipher with 128-bit block length. Consider the following encryption scheme for 256-bit messages: to encrypt message $M=m_1∥m_2$ using key $k$ (where $|m_1|=|m_2|=128$), choose random ...
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### Which of the following hash functions is collision resistant?

Let $H: M \to T\$ be a collision resistant hash function. Which of the following is collision resistant: $1.H'(m) = H(m \big\| m)$ $2.H'(m) = H(m) \big\| H(0)$ $3.H'(m) = H(m) \oplus H(m)$ ...
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### Signing a pdf document [closed]

I want to read a pdf document through an android application developed my me .Then i want to sign it through an certficate recorded in the smartphone.There is someone who know how to do it and thanks ...
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### SAT as a basis for a PKCS - Effective? [closed]

I recently read this paper on a public key cryptosystem based on the SAT-problem.(SAT=boolean satisfiability problem, NP-complete) The speed of this system looks quite promising as extreme ...
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### We are trying to decode a mysterious website, need help from experts [closed]

Here is the link of our investigation - http://www.reddit.com/r/gateway71 We are currently stuck on gif with blinking boxes and voice that appears to say the same what is happening on the gif. Here ...
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### System of linear congruence, not relatively prime [migrated]

Consider we have the following set of congruences $$x\equiv b_i \pmod {m_i}$$ for all $1\leq i\leq d$. $m_i$'s doesn't have to be relatively prime, so the Chinese remainder theorem doesn't work here. ...
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### How to get the (x,y) from the EC point in the pubkey of an ECDSA certificate?

I have this certificate, and I have the bitstring of the pubkey that should represent Q = (x,y) = [d]P. How can I get the x part? (The curve is the NIST B-163)
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### Why cant Public Key Encryption be perfectly secure? [duplicate]

I would be very grateful for any help. I cant figure out why (probabilistic) public key encryption schemes can never provide perfect secrecy? Any Ideas? Excerpt: In contrast to the private-key ...
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### How to convert PGP clearsign into the ascii armored OpenPGP message? [closed]

What I do have is the output of echo 'Test' | gpg --clearsign (take a look at below for instance): -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Test -----BEGIN ...
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### Meet-in-the-Middle attack on 3DES [duplicate]

How can I apply the Meet-in-the-Middle attack to the 3DES algorithm, and why does the literature say that 3DES is more secure than DES?
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### Recovering key length from transposition block cipher ciphertext

First of all I would like to say hello to all StackExchange users. So far I've been stalking the forum for some time, now it's time to leave the shadows. In my master thesis I'm writing about ...

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