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What is base of $\log$ in Subexponential Algo for DLP?

I am currently going through this paper - "A Subexponential Algorithm for the Discrete Logarithm Problem" by Leonard Adleman. On page 56, author mentions that Dixon's algorithm - Asymptotically Fast ...
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What is Attribute Based Encryption?

Can someone explain what attribute based encryption is? I was searching for a book or something that can help me in this regard but so far I have found none. Google also returns practically nothing ...
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CRL number generation sequence

RFC 5280 states that the CRL number should be monotonically increase. I have seen this common practice of incrementing the CRL number by 1, everytime a new CRL is generated. But can i use epoch time ...
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Are developers expected to implement Diffie-Hellman key exchange themselves?

I noticed that the GO standard library has some really nice functions for performing AES encryption / decryption in various modes. However, I couldn't (yet) find anything for Diffie-Hellman key ...
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Stopping timing attacks on AES: Why is it important to prevent the OS from interrupting the AES computation?

I read the paper Cache-timing attacks on AES (by Daniel J. Bernstein), but I don't seem to understand everything. The author dedicates a long section on how to prevent the OS to interrupt an AES ...
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Is it okay to use a variable-time RSA implementation to verify TLS certificates?

RSA as implemented by OpenSSL et al. needs to protect against side channel attacks, at a big performance penalty. However, TLS certificate validation involves no secrets. Therefore, I should be able ...
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How does a company like Apple keep its keys safe? [closed]

Whatever key is used to sign new iOS updates (for example) must be incredibly well-protected. How does a huge corporation like Apple keep those 4096 bits safe?! Same goes for SSL keys for websites ...
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In an A5/1 stream cipher, why do the registers have a stepping probability of 3/4

I know that the probability of each register to step is 3/4 but I have yet to find an explanation of why. Can anyone explain this to me?
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How were the diffusion statistics for norx calculated?

I was reading the norx specification and came across this section, which provides some kind of statistics about the diffusion of the norx round function. However, I don't see how these values were ...