# All Questions

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### When to chose hardware accelerated crypto for Big Data

if you were to recommend a cipher/mode configuration that emphasizes performance for your customers, would you recommend a hardware based accelerated solution over one that isn't? For big data at ...
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### Benchmarks for second round CAESAR competitors

I'm interested in how the second round CAESAR competitors stack up in terms of software performance against each other and against chacha20-poly1305 with both small and large messages. Sadly the only ...
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### is accessing elements of an array in secret order vulnerable to timing attack?

Suppose there is an array containing bytes 0...255. Suppose this array is shuffled using a key for random data. Since this is indexing the elements of a table using secret data, is it vulnerable to ...
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### Quantifying bit security for smart-vercauteren encryption scheme

I am working on project that requires to compare in terms of security between two encryption schemes, one of them is the SV scheme. However, I dont know what are the steps exactly towards quantifying ...
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### How to attack polyalphabetic affine cipher with only ciphertext?

How to attack polyalphabetic affine cipher with only the ciphertext? A polyalphabetic affine cipher can be seen as the composition of an affine cipher ($p \mapsto c \equiv a \times p + b \pmod{26})$ ...
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### Majority encryption algorithm?

Assume that I want to leave an encrypted message to a group of $n$ people in a way that they can only decrypt it if they work together in the following sense: For some fixed $k < n$ every ...
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### Committing to a secret shared value

Suppose I run a multiparty protocol. At the output stage, I have the function output in a secret shared manner among all parties. Now I want all the parties to commit to their value of the secret ...
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### Is OCB the state of the art in authenticated encryption modes of operation for block ciphers?

OCB mode seems to represent the state of the art in authenticated encryption modes, largely due to its speed – it is faster than GCM even when GCM has hardware support. Its only drawbacks seem ...
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### Does length prepending fix the key reuse problems with CBC and CBC-MAC?

As I hope everybody is well-aware, re-using the key for CBC-MAC and CBC is a really bad idea. Now, there's also the paradigm to prepend the message length to the CBC-MAC (as "associated data") to ...
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### Is an instruction similar to PCLMULQDQ valuable in post quantum key exchange?

This paper describes a Quantum Key Exchange based on the Ring Learning With Errors problem. When used with ECC, there is only a slight performance impact. Assuming this is the popularized approach ...
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### How secure is $\operatorname{AES256}_{\operatorname{ECB}}(\operatorname{ChaCha20}(\text{plaintext}))$?

Suppose I encrypt a bytestream using ChaCha20, and then encrypt the resulting ciphertext using AES in ECB mode. How secure is the combination?
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### Can you give me a summary of cryptographic hardness assumptions?

Until recently, I had a link to a website which summarizes up-to-date cryptographic hardness assumptions. But, unfortunately I cannot find it. The webpage is categorized well problems such as, DL ...
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### Best Attack Against HFE cryptosystem

I am looking for the best know attack against HFE cryptosystem. Reading this paper DEGREE OF REGULARITY FOR HFE I found the next claim However, Faugere and Joux demonstrated that we can solve and ...
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### Are there any crypography schemes which rely on Graph Isomorphism not being in P?

Are there any cryptography schemes having correctness relying on Graph Isomorphism not being in P? If I should ask this question in the CS Theory area, I will migrate it. Thanks.
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### Can an analog of ChaCha with 64-bit words be defined, and would it be secure?

Blake2b has a lightning fast compression function with more-than-overkill security even against quantum attacks. It seems to be based on ChaCha, but with 64-bit words and different rotation ...
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### Cloneability of AES-128

I would like to implement an anti-counterfeiting scheme for tools my company manufactures. This would ideally be done via RFID/NFC tags. However, the environment in which these tags operate would ...
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### Finding sum of two encrypted numbers

Let's consider such process: Two emitents emit two (integer) secret numbers independently They encrypt (encode) these number in such a way that no-one (except emitent) can decode these numbers. ...
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### security of Even-Mansour scheme with keyed shuffle

I was researching the Even-Mansour scheme and had a question that wasn't addressed in the paper that I saw, and google was minimally helpful. What if a permutation that uses secret data like the ...
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### Breaking linear blockcipher - expanding recursive formula

I am trying to break a block cipher that can be defined as follows: We have 12 rounds and at each round we perform the following operation. We split 64 bit data into 2 parts each 32-bits, $\ x_r$ ...
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### Publishing only items your subscriber previously subscribed to, without you knowing which those items are

Let's say you were given a dump from a security breach. You want to share the email addresses affected by the breach with a separate company who pays you for this service so that they can protect ...
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### Would LWE problem be still secure if error were like this $e=2e_1$?

In the Learning with error problem, if the error term $e$ from equation $b=<a,s>/q+e$ were of this kind $e=2e_1$, where $e_1$ is chosen according to the probability distribution for the LWE ...
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### Unlinkability of Merkle-Damgård hash function results

Question: Are multiple outputs of a Merkle-Damgård hash function (or specifically SHA-256, if this can only be said for a specific algorithm) on unknown data unlinkable? If yes: Can this be formally ...
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### What is the current encryption method used on GSM currently?

I am currently doing a mini project which sniffs GSM packets using gr-gsm and wireshark. I was wondering if anyone knows what is the name of the current encryption algorithm method used on GSM?
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### how exploitable are cache timing attacks

So there's a PHP package that's been recently written to protect against cache timing attacks: https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/4a1iuh/rfc_4648_character_encoding_written_to_resist/ My question ...
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### Perfect secrecy is maintained for other plaintext prob distributions?

Suppose a cryptosystem achieves perfect secrecy for a particular plaintext probability distribution. Prove that perfect secrecy is maintained for any other plaintext probability distribution. ...
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### How common are weak RSA keys?

There exist certain attacks that can be used against RSA keys whose prime factors are of specific forms, such as one by Coppersmith. How common are these RSA keys? If you generate primes randomly, ...
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### Can GCM auth be bitsliced?

Is it possible to use bitslicing for GCM? This seems like a way to allow for a way to avoid cache-timing attacks without PCLMUL instructions and with good performance.
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### DES_cblock and Key Recovery

I'm trying to get my hands on the key that OpenSSL uses for a DES encryption. The key is based off a random number generator with a seed taken as parameter. The code used is below, provided as part ...
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### How to make a “zero knowledge” cache/key-value store

I'd like to use a possibly insecure cache for storing expensive-to-calculate sensitive information. My requirements are: If the cache ever gets compromised it should reveal nothing about its ids or ...
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### Can I get an explanation of HDCP's key exchange protocol?

I'm talking about HDCP v1.x. The specification is a too dense for me and easy-to-understand information about it on the net is scarce. What I've gathered is: that there is a master key that is a ...
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### Would using a symmetric list of subkeys in a Feistel cipher make our messages vulnerable to oracle attacks?

Suppose I have a Feistel cipher structure that has $16$ rounds. I come up with $8$ subkeys $k_1,k_2,...,k_8$ to be used for the first $8$ rounds and then assign the rest of the keys so that ...
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### What is the difference between mutual authentication and unilateral authentication both ways?

I am currently reading Engineering Security by Peter Gutmann, on page 7 he states: proper mutual authentication is quite different from unilateral authentication in both directions He ...
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### no speedup from preprocessing in blynn's PBC library

I am implementing some pairing-based cryptography protocol using blynn's PBC library. I am only at the beginning and I wanted to confirm that preprocessing does increase the speed. However I seem to ...
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### LR-Oracle Experiment in Lindell and Katz

In reference to the LR-Oracle experiment in “Introduction to Modern Cryptography” (2nd edition) by Lindell & Katz, Definition 3.23 states a scheme $\pi = (Gen,Enc_K,Dec_K)$ is CPA secure for ...
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### Why reveal MAC-keys after using them?

As far as my understanding goes MACs are used to determine whether the received message comes from a source that has access to a MAC-key which is known by both parties. Some crypto protocols reveal ...
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### TPM's monotonic counters

I am reading the TPM Design Principles v1.2 §17 and do not feel I fully understand the example they give on how the counters would work. Apparently monotonic counters are used to prevent replay ...
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### Is EFS vulnerable to Chosen plaintext attack?

I have some backed up files encrypted with EFS and I lost the EFS certificate thus unable to decrypt the files. I understand that EFS uses the user certificate public key to encrypt the symmetric key ...
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### HD (Hierarchical Deterministic) Keys using Safe Curves?

Bitcoin's HD (Hierarchical Deterministic) Keys as described in BIP32 allow for a master key to be created (a private key and a chain code) such that a tree of both public and private keys can be ...
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### Seeking an implementation of the Satoh algorithm for elliptical curve point counting

I would be very grateful if someone has an implementation of the Satoh algorithm (Fast Elliptic Curve Point Counting). Can someone point me to practical algorithm implementations or provide some ...
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### Cost of attack on DSA with attack on DLP

Are there any (recent) estimates of cost of attack on DSA by solving the discrete logarithm? I'm especially interested in attacks that use Pollard's rho algorithm. Are there any optimized ...
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### How does darkmail (DIME) work to hide email metadata?

While Email encryption can protect the content of an email, the metadata are still readable and can be used to gather important information about the sender and the receiver. There were several news ...
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### Implementation specific differences between RDRAND and RDSEED

I've read Intel's The Difference Between RDRAND and RDSEED and Intel Digital Random Number Generator (DRNG) Software Implementation Guide, but I have some open questions that are specific to usage in ...
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### Lattice attacks against Multilinear Maps [CLT13]

I am currently studying an article on a construction of Multilinear maps. There are some attacks on the scheme presented by the authors and I got stuck at the one in section 5.1. I will try to ...
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### How about a homomorphic integer sorting in a MPC context?

I want to implement the ATV-FHE scheme as described by Adriana López-Alt, Eran Tromer, Vinod Vaikuntanathan: On-the-Fly Multiparty Computation on the Cloud via Multikey Fully Homomorphic Encryption ...
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### Brute force attack multiple stream cipher

Assume that a scheme used to secure a specific system $Π=(Gen,Enc,Dec)$ which is thought have indistinguishable multiple encryption in the presence of an eavesdropper. For any adversary $A$ that can ...
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### Elliptic Curve Blind Signature Implementation

I have seen this prior post: Elliptic Curve based blind signature implementation Currently I'm sizing up how difficult it would be to attain Elliptic Curve Blind signatures for an application I'm ...
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### Which is/are the strongest known Fully Homomorphic Encryption scheme(s)?

As it is discussed here that the highest security any homomorphic encryption scheme is at most IND-CCA1, Is there any known fully homomorphic encryption scheme that achieves this security level? Out ...
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### How to test a FHE implementation?

I want to implement a FHE scheme based on NTRU, namely the scheme described here https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/039.pdf . How to test the security of my implementation ? Do I have to implement the ...