# All Questions

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RFC 5959 specifies the encrypted storage of private keys based on PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA-256 and AES encryption (in ECB mode). Is there a particular reason AES is used, instead of simply XORing the key ...
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### User-specified PBKDF2 password, salt, and iterations limits

For a decentralized login where a user is left to select the password, salt, and iterations, what minimums for each should be enforced? In other words, because none are ever stored by the ...
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### Protocol composition [closed]

I have been trying to wrap my head around different definitions of protocol security (stand alone, sequential composition, parallel composition, universal composition) and how the proofs of any of ...
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### Is either brainpoolP320r1 or brainpoolP320t1 a SafeCurve?

Not all elliptic curves are safe to use for cryptography, especially from an ECC safety perspective. The site http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/index.html shows that two tested Brainpool curves, ...
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### Parallelized Pollard's Rho algorithm for ECDLP + Jacobian coordinates

My implementation of the parallelized Pollard's Rho algorithm is using Jacobian coordinates to avoid the costly inversion operation when performing point addition. I am wondering if there are any ...
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### Fast hashing into elliptic curve

Is there a fast algorithm for mapping $n$-bit numbers $s$ (for fixed $n$) into a cyclic subgroup of an elliptic curve (over a finite field) in which the Discrete Logarithm Problem is hard? By fast, I ...
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### Fiat–Shamir: why do r and s have to be smaller than n?

I have a question regarding the Fiat–Shamir identification protocol. In this source (pdf) for example it says on pages 9 and 10 that the random commitment $r$ and the private key $s$ have to be ...
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### Does knowing multiple hash of the same content make it more likely to generate original plain text?

Say I'm trying to brute force the original plain text of an SHA256 hash, does knowing the RIPEMD160 hash of the same text help? In other words, does providing access to hash values of the same text ...
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### LFSR and Markov chain question [closed]

This may seem an elementary question about LFSRs, and their link to Markov chains. LFSRs show Markov chain behaviour in that there can be a transition matrix defined over the LFSR, this follows from ...
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