# All Questions

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### Reversing a Psuedo Crytographic Hash [closed]

I'm trying to get a better understanding of cryptographic hashing. Take the example transformation function below, is it possible to reverse this formula to solve/isolate for message[i]? ...
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### Does Ed25519 support cryptographic threshold signatures?

This is a loaded question so I'll list the concerns, not all of which need to be satisfied. Does there exist a threshold-signature scheme for Ed25519 that... Does not require a trusted dealer to ...
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### Definition of “pepper” in hash functions

I am confused about the notion of "pepper" in the context of storing hashes of users' passwords. Definition 1: A pepper is a secret key Looking around the Internet, for example here or here, a ...
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### SHA1 - SSL/TLS Cipher Suite

SHA-1 is on the way to deprecation, in particular for digital certification (x509). But I can't find ressources about SHA-1 deprecation from SSL/TLS Cipher Suites. Is it implicit, as deprecation ...
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### how can I change representation of point to Jacobian coordinates in Edward's Curve

I want to simulate this algorithm but I want to change it's output to Jacobian coordinates. what should I do ? In the other way how can we change extended homogeneous coordinates to Jacobian ...
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### How to compare security parameters of different schemes (Sign-Encrypt, Encrypt-Sign, etc)? [duplicate]

How can one compare the security parameters (confidentiality, integrity, non repudiation, etc.) for different schemes (Sign-Encrypt, Encrypt-Sign, Sign-Encrypt-Sign, Encrypt-Sign-Encrypt)? Are there ...
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### ECC - ElGamal with Montgomery or Edwards type curves (curve25519, ed25519) - possible?

I know the usual way of using getting shared secrets for encryption with ECC is DH, however, this only works with two keypairs of exactly the same kind, for example two curve25519- or two ...
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### Implementing a pseudo random function in practice

Can anyone point me to a C++ crypto library with an implementation of a pseudo random function (PRF)? I don't have much background in crypto theory, but I am in the middle of a graduate course ...
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### RSA Cryptosytsem, choosing $e$ [duplicate]

I am using the RSA crytposytem. I have $p$, $q$ and hence $n$ and $\phi$ however I don't understand how to get $e$ such that $gcd(e,\phi)=1$ Many thanks
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### suitable programming language for cryptography algorithms [closed]

I know as programming languages C and java , and I know that java is slow so for this reason it is not suitable for cryptography applications espacially low level programming (manipulating bits) , so ...
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### CoAP authentication using DTLS

what is the meaning of this notation ?? AES{Yi, (Yi XOR Ki | nonce1)} https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bhattacharyya-core-coap-lite-auth-00
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### Elliptical curve cryptography key generation time

I am currently trying to learn more about Elliptical curve crypthography and have finally started to get things working and undestanding the different pieces. I've written a small project in C# and ...
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### Cracking RSA with Small exponent 5

I have read following questions - Cracking an RSA with no padding and very small e Small Encryption Exponent where in first it says to run out all the possible m options and second says factor ...
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### Sharing an encrypted file between a group of people

Is there any way to share an encrypted file with a group? In the other words, can I encrypt a file with a public key so that each person in a group decrypt it with his/her private key? Is there any ...
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### simulating rc4-256 with rc4-128

OpenSSL supports rc4 with 128-bit keys and rc4 with 40-bit keys. It does not support rc4 with 256-bit keys. My question is... is it possible to modify the state of the pseudo-random generation ...
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### what are multi-primes and how are they different from semiprimes?

I came to know of semiprimes recently. The simplest explanation of semiprimes is you take any two prime numbers and you multiply them, say 3*11 = 33 in which case 33 would be a semiprime. The numbers ...