# All Questions

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I realize it's generally considered bad idea to use the same password everywhere. I can use icloud / lastpass to generate my passwords for me, but that leaves me clueless when I don't have access to ...
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### Are collisions in AES-128 theoretically possible when the plaintext is the same? [duplicate]

Is it theoretically possible to find $P$, $K$, and $K^\prime$ such that $E_K(P) = E_{K^\prime}(P)$ where $E$ is AES-128 and $K \ne K^\prime$? I'd imagine this would be infeasible, but is it actually ...
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Double and Add Method If i have k=5, base poin G =(2,1) Is is double and method like this: 5.G = 2.(2G)+G How is the logic, is i want convert integer 5 to base 2, like this : 5 = 101 ...
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### 64-character encrypted text [closed]

can anybody help me please? Which encryption can be this: WTUXVZYEBDEDYVWVYDYVCCBBYYAZYDETAUCDCWXTEWWUYTCEYXBXBFAUTTCXCXDW And maybe a way to decrypt? If I'm not wrong, it can't be any kind of hash. ...
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### When we use permutation and random long sting to hide a message

This question is modified version of this: Can we use merely permutation to hide a message? I have an English name $m=m_1 || m_2 ||..||m_{30}$. I pick a random string $d=d_1 ||..||d_{70}$ I mix ...
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### How exactly does certificate based authentication work?

I know the concept of key generation, as well as encryption and decryption using public and private keys. When it comes to authenticating a user by a server, in general there are three types: ...
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### Bilinear pairing using jPBC in Java [closed]

How to generate Bilinear pairing in Java using jPBC? How to find the generator g which satisfies Non-degeneracy condition e(g,g)!=1
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### Is this DIY remote lock protocol secure?

I need your advice on following scheme of exchange protocol between remote lock and key. I'm planning to use following algorithm: Key generates unique value that never repeats (in reality it's just ...
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### Security for secret key of server in Identity-based Encryption

In the key set up phase, server generates Pub=s.P, where s is the secret key.Then , it gives clients Pub,P as public parameters and pairing descriptions. Is it possible for clients to pre-compute r.P ...
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### Does key renewal increase complexity of MAC forgery?

Suppose I have encrypted messages sent to a device authenticated with a MAC keyed with a strong shared cryptographic key. This device can only process so many messages per unit of time. This ...
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### Vulnerabilities in SHA-1 [duplicate]

Are there any known vulnerabilities in SHA-1 that can be exploited? Certain patterns that it shows? I recently performed a frequency analysis using 20,000 common words, and found nothing exploitable. ...
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### Should the most significant byte of a cryptograhic key be nonzero?

Is it safer to give a non zero value to the most significant byte (MSB) of a cryptographic key to ensure its length (not 31 instead of 32 for an EC private key on a 256-bit curve for example)? Or is ...
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### Is H'(M)=5*M + 9*H(M) mod 2^n a secure hash?

theorem: For arbitrary $i≥0$ there exists $m,n≥0$ such that $35+i=5m+9n$. We can use this theorem for constructing simple hash function. Let $M$ be message and $H(M)$ be its hashed value with ...
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### Can we use merely permutation to hide a message?

This question is related to this: When all shares of a secret are given to adversary as a permuted matrix I think the below question is a simplified version of that. Assume we have a 40-bit ...
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### Why doesn't Morse Code try to achieve more compression? [migrated]

I was working on the Morse Code article (wikipedia), when I noticed something strange. There might be a reason, but I can't find it. As you can see, the code symbol ...
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### How to choose topics for reserach [closed]

I have completed my post-graduate program in Pure Mathematics this year. As I was interested in Abstract Algebra ,I took up Number Theory and Cryptography as my special paper . The topics in the Ist ...
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### RSA-OAEP: How does it work?

I was looking at this image about OAEP: ..and was wondering what was happening here. 1) We have a data block DB which consists of: ...
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### When all shares of a secret are given to adversary as a permuted matrix

Suppose we have a secret $\sigma$. The secret comes from a universe in which the elements are not necessarily distributed uniformly. We split $\sigma$ into $n$ shares $[\sigma_1,...,\sigma_n]$ ...
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### Subset sum hardness

Hardness of a subset sum probleme depends on it's density. Is it possible for a subset sum problem to be intractable even if it's density is less than 0.9408 ?
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### Compressing AES [duplicate]

I have this program which encrypts multiple files using AES then compress it using LZO into one single file. The problem is that the final file is almost equal in size than all the files which means ...
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### Understanding the distinguisher for a PRG

Given the following definition of a psuedorandom generator, I'm having trouble understanding what exactly the "distinguisher" D is outputting, and when?
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### Security issues with self encryption? [duplicate]

I'm thinking about the scenario of using a set of (potentially untrusted) hosts to store (potentially private) files. Think something like distributed backup where you contribute some disk space and ...
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### Degrade in performance with SSL_OP_SINGLE_ECDH_USE?

We have used SSL_OP_SINGLE_ECDH_USE when setting up our SSL_CTX . This seems to be causing a degrade in performance. I'm not able to find proper documentation for it except that it generates new ...
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### Single-algorithm authenticated encryption

Are there any authenticated encryption methods that combine encryption and authentication, rather than useing a separate cipher and MAC?
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### Is this a good communication scheme?

I'm writing a wrapper for a chat program to allow for end-to-end encryption. I'm using Python and PyCrypto to accomplish this. I'd like to use a well known library to do this, but to my knowledge, ...
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### Proof of Knowledge/Data Integrity using Hash Function

Objective: A verifier wants to ensure that a block of data M is also known to a prover. The protocol should exchange little information and should not leak information about the value of M. Proposed ...
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### In interactive proofs, do we assume that the prover can always solve the problem?

I'm having a difficult time understanding a concept from interactive proofs: A trivial interactive proof for the graph isomorphism problem is having the prover just send a permutation that shows an ...
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### How can a message encrypted with the public key be decrypted with the private key? [duplicate]

I've been reading about encryption and have a basic understanding of the concept. What I don't understand, however, is how a calculation with one key can result in a number that, through calculation ...