# All Questions

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### What is the difference between online and offline brute force attacks?

I read some papers saying a certain scheme is secure for offline brute force attacks, but vulnerable to online brute force attacks. I wonder the difference between the online and offline brute force ...
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### Does failure of indistinguishability of encryptions imply lack of CPA-security?

Suppose we have an encryption scheme that fails the indistinguishability of encryptions test. That is, given messages $m_0, m_1$ and a ciphertext $c_b = Enc_k(m_b)$, where $b \in \{0, 1\}$, the ...
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### On composition of encryption schemes

If we composed (as in function composition) multiple CPA-secure encryption schemes would the result also be CPA-secure?
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### Is there an asymmetric One-Time-Pad? [duplicate]

Is there something like a perfect asymmetric crypto-algo? Is there proof that there must be one or not. From a logical point of view it seems to be possible to design such algorithm if your keysize is ...
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### Chosen-plaintext attack

Let F be a block cipher with 128-bit block length. Consider the following encryption scheme for 256-bit messages: to encrypt message $M=m_1∥m_2$ using key $k$ (where $|m_1|=|m_2|=128$), choose random ...
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### Which of the following hash functions is collision resistant?

Let $H: M \to T\$ be a collision resistant hash function. Which of the following is collision resistant: $1.H'(m) = H(m \big\| m)$ $2.H'(m) = H(m) \big\| H(0)$ $3.H'(m) = H(m) \oplus H(m)$ ...
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### Why cant Public Key Encryption be perfectly secure? [duplicate]

I would be very grateful for any help. I cant figure out why (probabilistic) public key encryption schemes can never provide perfect secrecy? Any Ideas? Excerpt: In contrast to the private-key ...
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### Meet-in-the-Middle attack on 3DES [duplicate]

How can I apply the Meet-in-the-Middle attack to the 3DES algorithm, and why does the literature say that 3DES is more secure than DES?
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### Recovering key length from transposition block cipher ciphertext

First of all I would like to say hello to all StackExchange users. So far I've been stalking the forum for some time, now it's time to leave the shadows. In my master thesis I'm writing about ...
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### Outsourced Multiparty computation proof in Ideal world

I need to know in an outsourced two party computation where honst $A$ and $B$ outsource their private and secure data to a malicious server, why we need to design a simulator that interacts with an ...
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### How to exchange authentication keys

I am trying to create a secure Bluetooth Low Energy connection. The peripheral server (the main device other people would connect to) would need to service many clients (users) and due to hardware ...
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### Generate a list of valid ASCII codes

I have read many pages about encryption but I am really stuck on this. For access control to a building I want to print a 10 character ASCII code on a ticket (as a barcode). The barcode reader ...
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### Practical Uses for Timing Attacks on Hash Comparisons (e.g. MD5)?

Consider the following code snippet: ...
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### SHA3 Keccak, absorbing data to the state

I'm working on implementation of keccak algorithm and have one problem. Tell me please, takeing an example "test": will state (before block permutations, but after padding - pad10*1) look like this: ...
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### where should private and public keys be stored? [closed]

I am kind of confused whether should a newly generated key pair be stored in a keystore or in just a normal plain text file? From what I read from online source, there are serveral explainations ...
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### Role of trusted party in the Ideal model in Malicious case

Imagine there is a protocol supporting outosurced multi party computation. There are three parties involved in the protocol: client $A$, client $B$ and a server. Client $A$ and $B$ send their private ...
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### Is there a tangible benefit in keeping the number of PBKDF iterations secret and not storing them with the ciphertext?

Suppose I have a local file and it is encrypted with a symmetric key derived from a strong passphrase, unique salt and $x$ number of PBKDF (e.g. Scrypt) iterations. I am interested in keeping this ...
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### Security of a custom non linear hill cipher

Initially let me state that this is an atypical type of cryptographic encoding. First I break up my key into three parts $k = {W,\overrightarrow{b},\alpha}$. the $W$ is simply a $n \times n$ matrix, ...
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### DH with AES - is that an acceptable security scheme over UPnP?

I'm trying to devise a good security scheme to protect comms over Wi-Fi. Right now, I have 2 devices that already communicate via UPnP but I need to secure this communication. I've come up with this: ...
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### what is the public information in Elliptic curve cryptosystems [closed]

Currently my knowledge about Elliptic curve is quite limited to the textbook and I don't know how a practical Elliptic curve cryptosystem works. I read an example about key exchange using Elliptic ...
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### Is HMAC-MD5 still secure for commitment or other common uses?

MD5 collisions have been out for some time. In spite of this, HMAC-MD5 is still secure for authenticating data1. This illustrates a strength of the HMAC construction, it does not require that the hash ...
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### How are messages from server secured when using SSL certificate

In case of using SSL the certificate server has a primary key and a public key that is published to all clients - as far as I understood. So in this case when message is encrypted by public key (on ...
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### Second generator for secp256k1 curve

I want to get a group element $h$ on the elliptic curve secp256k1. The important thing is that no one should know the discrete logarithm of $h$ with respect to $g$. That is, $h$ should be created from ...
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### ECC vs RSA: how to compare key sizes?

I know and I have understood the details of RSA, elliptic curve cryptography, (EC)DH and (EC)DSA. I keep reading everywhere that (if we don't consider non-deterministic computers) "ECC can achieve ...
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### Avoiding known plaintext attacks with an additional XOR-Layer

Can a cipher that is vulnerable to an known plaintext attack be made secure by adding an additional XOR-encryption? That is: suppose I have an (w.l.o.g. symmetric) encryption algorithm E were the ...
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### Is what i'm trying to do safe?

What both parties have: Server Master Secret (MS) Server supported versions (Svers) Agreed upon version (ver) Client Master Secret (MS) Client supported versions (Cvers) Agreed upon version (Ver) ...
Suppose I have a ciphertext that I know is encrypted using an affine cipher in $\mathbb{Z}_{26}$. The plaintext begins with es and the corresponding ciphertext is ...