# All Questions

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### blowfish ecb with openssl doesn't give the expected result

I do the following via the Linux CLI: ...
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### How costly is to find millions of large prime numbers for RSA?

Consider I need to assign a large distinct prime number to each element in a large set. This must be deterministic so the function always gives me the same prime to the same value. What is the most ...
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### How to compute the decompositions used in fast FHE bootstrapping?

Leo Ducas and Daniele Micciancio's recent paper "FHE Bootstrapping in less than a second" gave an exciting result that one can compute the `atom operation' of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (i.e. ...
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### How secure is this use of Ziv-Lempel encoding?

I'm reading patent application US 20120278897 A1 — “System and method of sort-order preserving tokenization”. Near the bottom they describe their token generation algorithm, which basically involves ...
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### Isn't 'exponent' only present in MSME equations in Groth-Sahai framework?

Below are different types of equations in Groth-Sahai framework. All three instantiations, viz. Subgroup Decision, SXDH and DLIN allow to commit to exponent. But, isn't the concept of exponent only ...
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### Encrypt a Zip File with Caesar Cipher

I'm trying to understand, why the Filesize of a Caesar Cipher encrypted foo.txt.zip File is smaller than a Caesar cipher encrypted foo.txt File. For example: Foo.txt size: 90bytes foo.txt.Caesar.enc ...
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### Where did the SHAKEs come from in SHA3?

Where did SHAKE128 and SHAKE256 originate from? I am trying to find them in the original Keccak documentation but can't find them. Is it some special mode of Keccak referenced in the documentation? ...
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### Is it possible to find plaintext from ciphertext if (n) and (a) are known for RSA?

I have a couple of questions pertaining to a RSA problem. I need to decipher some ciphertext and find out what the original plaintext was. Modulus: $n = 2537$ and exponent: $a = 11$ Encrypting ...
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### Rijndael performance

I have written the routines Rijndael 128-Bit ENC/DEC and KeyExpand. In bit sliced SSE2, and from his OPS would like to know its performance. The results are as follows: ENC: SubBytes&Shiftrows ...
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### How does MD5 process text which is shorter than 512 bits

MD5 processes a 512-bit block and produces a 128-bit (16 byte) message digest often expressed as 32-digit hexadecimal value For example if I hash the word "how" using MD5 , I get the following hash ...
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### How dead is braid based cryptography

Braid groups has drawn the attention of cryptographers for a few years, as a promising platform for post-quantum cryptographic protocols. The security of the proposed schemes mostly relied on ...
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### Do passphrases need to be run through PBKDF2? Almost impossible to brute force? [migrated]

Passphrases normally contain more data then passwords and can provide more entropy. It seems like it would still be hard to brute force a passphrase w/o using PBKDF2, assuming a user didn't select a ...
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### Weak key schedule IDEA [closed]

Why was such a weak key schedule chosen for IDEA? The key schedule of IDEA works like this: Divide the key (128 bit) into 8 round keys, each 16 bit long. This are the first 8 "round" keys (6 keys per ...
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### RSA example-calculation: Public Key = Private Key (e = d)

I am a bit confused. I just calculated manually the single steps of RSA for an implementation with small numbers and suddenly $d$ was equal $e$. Please help me understand what I am doing wrong. ...
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### Is it possible to demonstrate that md5(x) != x for any x?

I am looking for an easy to follow explanation, if possible, that demonstrates/proves the validity (or not!) of this assertion: for any X, md5(X) != X (being X any string of 32 hex characters)
### Finding all primitive polynomials of a certain degree in $\mathbb{F}_q$ [migrated]
I am writing an algorithm to find all primitive polynomials in $\mathbb{F}_2[X]$ and I found this theorem : If $P(X)$ is a primitive polynomial in $\mathbb{F}_p[X]$ of degree $n$ with root $a$, then ...