# All Questions

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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/...
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### what kind of custom header add to encrypted file to identify my encryption,consider safe and reliable.like pseudo format extension or file size

I want to add some custom header to encrypted file to identify my encryption,consider safe and reliable.like pseudo format extension or file size.Is there any algorithm or tool to make it?
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### After a diffie hellman key exchange, what is the common secret used for?

What is the common secret that is established used for? What types of interactions are now possible?
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### Older key as PGP subkey?

Currently I have a 2048-bit PGP key. Suppose I create a new 4096-bit key. Can I add that old key as a subkey of this new one?
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### Why does 3DES need private key to decrypt?

I create two files, my.cer and my.pem ( include certificate and private key), I encrypt a file with my.cer, I use openssl smime -encrypt command. When decrypting data, it needs my.pem. I think 3DES ...
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### culling equivalent Enigma keys for short messages

The following for-loop iterates over all possible keys for an M3 Enigma for three selected rotors: ...
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### Encryption-then-encode or encode-then-encryption?

I have this question in which I m struggling. I have read in many sites about encrypt-then-mac etc. If the confidentiality for transmission is needed, discuss the feature for the order of encryption ...
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### What would currently make the strongest https connection?

when you look at the encryption websites use you will see that there is alot of diversity, some use 256 bit keys some do not, some use DHE-RSA some ECDHE some use sha 256 some sha1, but my question is,...
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### Does encryption of data/information take place in peer to peer networks like Gnutella, Bittorrent?

Do peer to peer networks like Gnutella, Bittorrent have any encryption system to secure the users privacy or encrypt the file/data being shared? Elaborate please.
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### bruteforce on aes 256 cbc mode

i have a series of encrypted text , they encrypted by aes 256 bit cbc mode for every encrypted text there is an iv that i have them also and i know its algorithm is aes 256 bit cbc mode i can ...
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### Is PKCS7 a signature format or a certificate format?

I always though PKCS7 was a signature format. However, on the net I find several references to PKCS7 being a certificate format - for example, this talks about PKCS7 certificate: Extract raw ...
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### Output of a Linear Shift Register given Plaintext and intial state

Given an initial state $S_0 = (0101)$ and plaintext $P = 1010101011$ I need to find the ciphertext. The method to solve this was not taught in my coursework, and the information I have found online ...
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### Some terms related to secret sharing: Optimality, What does it mean?

In any secret sharing scheme we have to develop step by step. After constructing such scheme we need to reduce share size. Why? e.g. Robust secret sharing scheme is modified Shamir secret sharing ...
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### Is the ring learning with errors problem still hard if the errors are drawn from some subspace?

Let $R=\mathbb{Z}_p[x]/x^n+1$ be the ring used in normal RLWE, which is linear space over $\mathbb{Z}_p$ with dimension of $n$, let $S$ be a linear subspace of $R$ which described by linear ...
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### Name of an archaic type of RSA padding (0BBBBBBB…)

In some legacy code, I encountered RSA signature padding in the following format (hexadecimal): 0B BB BB BB BB BB BB ... BB BB <hash> Is there a name for ...
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### Why is Diffie-Hellman used instead of just RSA in key-exchange (TLS, IKE)?

Why should a key exchange protocol (such as in TLS or IKE) use Diffie Hellman? Why not just use RSA? For example: Alice picks a random session key, signs it, encrypts it with Bob's public key, and ...
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### How can I obtain the raw decimal value of an RSA key's modulus?

So maybe I'm thinking about this too hard, or maybe I'm missing a piece of information. We'll use Google for this example. Say I wanted to obtain the modulus of Google's current public key. Well I ...
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### Advantages/disadvantages of using symmetric encryption function as hash function?

Next to the traditional MD5 and SHA-1, other hashing algorithms exist based on symmetric encryption algorithms. An example is the Matyas–Meyer–Oseas construction. What are the advantages/...
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### Why is synthetic IV (SIV) mode considered deterministic authenticated encryption (DAE)?

I was just going over my (old) notes from Coursera's Cryptography I course, and I was puzzled by the description of SIV as providing deterministic authenticated encryption (DAE). The general SIV ...
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### identifying presence of encryption of zero in additive homomorphic encryption

Lets say the server has corpus of ciphertext contains $enc(a),enc(b),enc(c), \dotsc enc(x)$. The encryption function is an additive homomorphic scheme (like Paillier). The server knows only the public ...
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### Calculating Polynomial Inverse with extended euclid in java

I'm trying to understand the NTRU-PKCS and therefor I wanted to code a naive Version of it. Now my Problem: I tried to calculate the inverse of a Polynomial with an extended Version of euclids ...
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### Using Pollard's lambda in a key-recovery attack on DH

I've become interested in writing an exploit for the OpenSSL vulnerability here (CVE-2016-0701). Running through the bullets describing the attack, I can follow up to the last bullet point. Reviewing ...
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### Can you extract the encryption key of a computer with full disk encryption via malware? [migrated]

I recently discovered the subject of cold boot attacks which are able to extract the encryption key of the ram memory after the computer has shut down. and from what I understand is that law ...
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### How to select a good scale for letter frequency in a text?

I needed to use a scale in a code to determine which sentence in a file has been encrypted by a single-character key. The scale that i currently used is: +2 for every occurrence of a vowel or a ...
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### Is this a proper key-exchange implementation?

I've been trying to implement Diffie Hellman key exchange so far from my own understandings (I know I could just stick with SSL/TLS, but I want to understand it in depth more), so I created this basic ...