# All Questions

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### Clarification on Key exchange approaches in TLS/SSL

When RSA is used for key exchange in SSL, the client basically encrypts some random data using the server's public key and and sends it to the server. This data is then used to compute the shared key ...
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### Creating serial key generator using ECDSA, how to get signature short enough?

I've written some questions in this stackoverflow and got great responses but now I'm trying to wrap it all together. I have for the last couple of weeks been building a serial key generator project ...
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### In which cases should the IV be kept secret?

When must an IV be kept secret? There is an ambiguity in the way that the lack of need for secrecy of the IV is described in multiple places. Does this ambiguity suggest that there are, in fact, ...
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### Exploiting XOR one-time-pads with alphabet size that isn't a power of 2

I realized that if the key is chosen randomly from a range that isn't a power of $2$, the one-time-pad leaks information about the plaintext. For example, if the alphabet was the first 20 naturals, ...
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### Existential Unforgeability of signature scheme against Adaptive Chosen Message Attack

While reading a literature on signature schemes, I came across the concept of Existential Unforgeability of signature scheme against Adaptive Chosen Message Attack. Can anyone point me to the paper ...
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### Is this ECDHE approach secure?

First of all sorry if this question could be trivial, but I did some researches and it seems to me that this is a standard approach, but I want to be really sure. I'm developing a signed/encrypted ...
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### Secure Communication Protocol Design using oblivious transfer?

I have a problem I need to solve with the following scenario and I hope someone can help me find an approach or direction to start tackling it. Consider Alice as a sender who has $n$ strings which ...
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### Proof of IND-q-CCA security

I have some questions about the paper Bounded CCA2-Secure Encryption (pdf). On page eight "3.2 Construction", the authors have done a black-box construction of an IND-q-CCA security schema and then ...
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### Why DES s-box non-linear? Why it makes the cracking of the cypher more difficult?

I know that if we have a cypher which makes only linear transformations (let's say a bunch of $XOR$'s), we break it simply writing a system of equations with $\oplus$ operation starting from the ...
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### GIven Unencrypted and encrypted data (AES-GCM) both, is it possible to calculate the Chiper key of AES-GCM [duplicate]

Sorry for a simple curiosity, Given Unencrypted and encrypted data (AES-GCM) both, is it possible to calculate the Chiper key of AES-GCM ?
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### Zero-knowledge proof for the product of additive Paillier ciphers

Suppose that Alice received the cipher values: $E(x_1), E(x_2), ..., E(x_n)$ that are encrypted using Paillier cryptosystem by $n$ entities with Bob's public key. Alice computes $E(\sum x_i)$ from ...
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### substitution Box(s-box) for AES

can anyone suggest me any fast searching method or algorithm to find best S-Box among a big number of S-boxes?for example ; if i have 100 different s-boxes. i want to pick any one which is secured ...
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### Are any of the practical implementations of ORAM being used in a real world system?

The concept of Oblivious RAM (ORAM) was first introduced by Oded Goldreich and Rafail Ostrovsky in 1996. However, in the past 5-10 years there has been a surge in the amount of research that looks ...