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rotational cryptanalysis on modulo multiplication?

I saw the paper 'Rotational Cryptanalysis of ARX', it is effective against design primitives using XOR, addition, and rotation. http://www.iacr.org/archive/fse2010/61470339/61470339.pdf However ...
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Probability of factoring keys as a function of bit length

kinda new here, I had a question pertaining to someone being able to factor one's RSA keys through the GCD. Anyways the question goes that there are two people: A and B. A makes his/her private key as ...
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Difference between Symmetric and Asymmetric. Is this answer correct, based on a written test?

I asked the following question on a final exam: Symmetric Ciphers (e.g. AES, DES, Blowfish) use up to 256 bit on the best case, which are considered strong against brute-force attacks. On ...
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Proving the semantic security of the One Time pad

Currently hearing a lecture on cryptography, and the professor gave us the definition of semantic security, which is roughly the following (formally not quite complete, but you get the idea): ...
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Statistical properties of hash functions when calculating modulo

When using SHA-1 to hash an input, the result is a pseudo-random number in the numeric ID space $\{0\dots2^{160}-1\}$. Do I loose any statistical property in the result if I use modulo to restrict the ...
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what is the benefit of lcm in cryptography? [closed]

what is the benefit of lcm in cryptography? and what is the effect of lcm on public key? note * lcm = Least common multiple thanks
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processing time for multiplication and exponentiation in pairing base cryptography

I'm using the Boneh-Boyen-Shacham signature scheme and want to estimate complexity in my scheme. As reported in "Scott M., Efficient Implementation of Cryptographic pairings", if we set parameters ...
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CAST-256 (CAST6) versions or S-Boxes

Are there different versions of CAST-256 - also known as CAST6 - available? Are there different S-Boxes available for CAST-256? If there are different versions or S-Boxes what identifier should I use ...
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Voting system validation

I'm developing an application to run elections. A voting system. I would like to give the ability to the voters to check later if their vote were correct computed/casted. assumptions: each user has ...
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Are there any proofs of the SHA1 compression function's (second-)preimage resistance?

Why is SHA1 preimage-resistant? The best reference that I can find is Rogaway & Shrimpton's 2009 paper, and I'll use their definitions. The kind of preimage resistance that is wanted is aPre. ...
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Explanation of the Fiat-Shamir heuristic

The Wikipedia page on the topic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat%E2%80%93Shamir_heuristic) is completely useless as it only explains what it is and not how it works. I looked at the original paper ...
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Fermats Little Theorem, primitive root [closed]

So I am studying for finals and I am not able to solve the problem: Let $p = 3 * 2^{11484018}- 1$ be a prime with 3457035 digits. Find a positive integer $x$ so that $2^x\equiv 3\pmod p$ Any ...
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