# All Questions

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### What does “learnable with oracle queries” mean?

I came across the following quotes in reading papers on obfuscation (1, ibid, and 2): The next result follows from the fact that point functions are not exactly learnable (since a uniformly chosen ...
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### MD5 update functions

In the hashlib module in python is a function called m.update() where m is a ...
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### Arranging Vigenere Cipher into columns [migrated]

As I understand if you arrange a Vigenere cipher into columns you can use the Index Of Coincidence to find out the key length. I'm struggling to write an Algorithm that would take a piece of text and ...
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### initiate the elliptic curve

when we consider a curve in a prime field for example Weierstrass form and want to initiate it in Miracl,we should give these inputs for initiate curve: ebrick_init(&binst,x,y,a,b,n,window,nb) ...
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### Existential Unforgeability of signature scheme against Adaptive Chosen Message Attack

While reading a literature on signature schemes, I came across the concept of Existential Unforgeability of signature scheme against Adaptive Chosen Message Attack. Can anyone point me to the paper ...
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### blowfish ecb with openssl doesn't give the expected result

I do the following via the Linux CLI: ...
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### HMAC_DRBG Generate Process: requesting N bytes at once different from requesting N bytes in total?

Am I correct in assuming that HMAC_DRBG would return different results if I, e.g. first request 4 bytes followed by a request of another 4 bytes instead of asking for 8 bytes at once? It seems that ...
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### Prove that the affine cipher over Z26 has perfect secrecy if every key is used with equal probability of 1/312

Prove that the affine cipher over Z26 has perfect secrecy if every key is used with equal probability of 1/312. Just some guidance/help with this problem would be greatly appreciated not sure how to ...
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### Where did the SHAKEs come from in SHA3?

Where did SHAKE128 and SHAKE256 originate from? I am trying to find them in the original Keccak documentation but can't find them. Is it some special mode of Keccak referenced in the documentation? ...
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### Rijndael performance

I have written the routines Rijndael 128-Bit ENC/DEC and KeyExpand. In bit sliced SSE2, and from his OPS would like to know its performance. The results are as follows: ENC: SubBytes&Shiftrows ...
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### Do passphrases need to be run through PBKDF2? Almost impossible to brute force? [migrated]

Passphrases normally contain more data then passwords and can provide more entropy. It seems like it would still be hard to brute force a passphrase w/o using PBKDF2, assuming a user didn't select a ...

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