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If you receive a message with a digital signature, how do you know what verification key to use and the verification algorithm?

Really, I'm asking how do you know who sent it? My confusion has arisen from the following scenario... Problems with Signing-then-encrypting. If Alice digitally signed some data and then encrypted ...
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Randomness test question from FIPS 140-1 and comparison with 140-2

In FIPS 140-1 there are 4 statistical random number generator tests (The Monobit Test, The Poker Test, The Runs Test and The Long Runs Test. Then FIPS 140-2 came along and supposedly tightened the ...
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Discrete logarithm problem is easy in a cyclic group of order a power of two

Let $G=\langle g\rangle$ be a cyclic group of order $2^{k}$ and let $h\in G$. I have read that it is easy to find $\log _{g} h$, but I haven't been able to figure out how. Do you know why this can be ...
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Big-O Notation: Encryption Algorithms

I am currently completing a dissertation concerning the encryption of data through a variety of cryptographic algorithms. I have spent much time reading journals and papers but as yet have been ...
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CCA on PKCS#5 using error feedback

My question is about attacking PKCS#5 with CCA using the error feedback. What we learnt in class about PKCS#5: CBC requires padding to whole block boundary PKCS#5: standard padding If ...
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Big block cipher as memory-hard function

I'm wondering, if something like block cipher with big block size is a good memory-hard function? All memory-hard key derivation functions I've seen look more complex than that, which made me ...
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Single public key for NaCL signing and encryption?

Bob wants to use NaCL (specifically the Python NaCL library) to both a) sign some publically available plaintext for anybody to authenticate as being written by Bob and b) encrypt some other secret ...
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Difference of full codebook and non full codebook

While reading a paper about Dynamic cube attack, I saw two terms: full-codebook and non-full-codebook attacks. What do they mean? What is the difference? Regards
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How big an RSA key is considered secure today?

I think 1024 bit RSA keys were considered secure ~5 years ago, but I assume that's not true anymore. Can 2048 or 4096 keys still be relied upon, or have we gained too much computing power in the ...
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Is the result of HMAC-sha256 distinguishable from random noise?

Is if the result of HMAC-sha256 distinguishable from random noise? If so, given: a collection of 1000 keys, and 1000 messages of random noise, 100 signed by each of only 10 of those keys Can ...
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Can error correcting codes be used to guess this plaintext?

I pick a finite set of messages, perhaps the set of integers $M = \lbrace n \in \mathbf{Z} \, : \, 0 \leq n\lt10 \rbrace$, which you are then allowed to encode in any way you want (some form of error ...
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I'm studying mechanisms of integrity and authentication in symmetric encryption scenarios. I want to propose some examples to see whether I got the point here: Let $m$ be the message, $c$ the ...
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What is the recommended format/notation for crypto design?

Is there a recommended format or formal notation for documenting the combination of symmetric and asymmetric encryption, key derivation and other algorithms (and their inputs and outputs) that I think ...
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How to invert a linear hash function?

My friend is trying to convince me that his linear hash function (with a few bit operations) is secure. Is there a way to disprove this? (Or prove this, but I've read from multiple sources that this ...
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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 constants....
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Which is the longest CSPRNG?

There are some PRNGs considered cryptographically secure. Which has the longest period among them?
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How should I implement a secure recovery of encryption?

I want to create a system to host as securely as possible encrypted data in a way that not even the system can know the content of the data, but that it could be recovered. I would like to know how ...
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Use Smart Card to decrypt files

So I'm trying to figure out the feasibility of using a Smart Card to decrypt files in an offline scenario. I wish to sync encrypted files to a mobile phone with a Smart Card reader case. The files ...
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Could a strong round function be immune to slide attacks

An excerpt from the wikipedia article on slide attacks states: ...The only requirements for a slide attack to work on a cipher is that it can be broken down into multiple rounds of an identical F ...
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Optimal threshold for passive and perfect security

The authors of the book titled "Secure Multiparty Computation and Secret Sharing" claim that there exist functions which cannot be computed with passive perfect security for $t \geq n/2$ corrupt ...