# All Questions

49 views

### private keys for multiple devices [closed]

I have an architecture where: a user can have multiple devices (phones) the server needs to broadcast the payload to all devices through the same channel (basically, all devices listen and receive ...
37 views

### How to implement the Salsa20 hash function?

I am currently implementing Salsa20 from the specification as an exercise in learning and self-flagellation. I have Sections 1-7 passing the test examples provided. I am now stuck on Section 8, The ...
65 views

### Is there a client-side program to cryptography a HTML page and decode if correct password is writen? [closed]

I want to know if there is an easy way to do this: create a complete HTML page cryptography the text content (image is not important) ask user some password check the password with a cryptographed ...
69 views

### Strength of RSA with OAEP

In our current system we use an encryption solution based on RSA with OAEP padding. Key size is optional but default 2048. What is the general strength of RSA with OAEP? Are there know attacks that ...
31 views

### Unique assignment of X.509 certificate to each client

I'm trying to implement a short scale electronic voting application in a domain comprised of no more than 100 clients. System administrator is able to create new election instances and each client is ...
5 views

### Point of elliptic curve [migrated]

How can we calculate the multiple of a point of an elliptic curve? For example having the elliptic curve $y^2=x^3+x^2-25x+39$ and the point $P=(21, 96)$. To find the point $6P$ is the only way to ...
29 views

### Question about key verification

I am studying for network security exam. And in the slide about Key Management, under a heading Key Verification I see this: Key Verification Almost all cryptographic algorithms have some weak keys ...
104 views

### How much (home PC) CPU time is required to generate a prime number of a given size?

How much CPU time is required on a typical home computer to generate a prime number of size 100 bit, 200 bit , 512 bit and 1024 bit using given random bits of the respective sizes? Please note that ...
37 views

### Remove padding (CBC) from decrypted text

I have a bit problem with padding. Everything goes fine when I encrypt the text BUT when I decrypt I see some extra characters. Sometime's one character sometimes more and I dont know how to remove ...
88 views

### Possible to use an accumulator to “license” or restrict the qty of certificates being used?

Suppose in a future version of x509 PKI, it is possible to limit the quantity of certificates being used, what would that look like? Here is a concept that won't work in the real world, but ...
48 views

### Problem with implementing DES in python

i'm implementing DES in python and i've stumbled upon a problem i can't really find the problem, after debugging it i narrowed it down to this function, can anyone tell me if i'm implementing the DES ...
103 views

### Which block cipher mode does the experts use? [closed]

I want to know which "block cipher mode of operation" does the experts use? I don't want to use ECB or CBC because add padding and padding mess up my code. So which one does the experts use. /Thanks ...
52 views

### How secure is file header encryption for large files?

I'm having trouble location information about whether or not encrypting a file's header is good enough. The files in question are media files that range in size from 500mb to 4GB. If I had no ...
120 views

### Montgomery Algorithm

I'm trying to undestand how it works and how to implement the algo described in this paper. The paper shows a methods to compute a modular multiplication where it is used multiplier with a resolution ...
50 views

### subgroup of quadratic residue

if a number is said to be a subgroup of a quadratic residue of Z∗p, can I affirm that it is a generator of a cyclic group ? ie, say i am looking for a number which is an element of order q in Z*p, ...
31 views

### Discrepancy with reported key size for EDE ciphers in Qualys SSL Labs

The following two cipher suites were reported by Qualys SSL Labs as being 112-bit: SSL_CK_DES_192_EDE3_CBC_WITH_MD5 TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA However, all other references I can find say that ...
45 views

### What is the algorithm behind PasswordDeriveBytes?

Microsoft has created an implementation of PBKDF1 in the PasswordDeriveBytes class. It can however generate more bytes than PBKDF1, which is limited to the number ...
55 views

### Are there any known inverse hash lookups for the zero string?

Just wondering, are there any known inverse hashes / hash lookups in common hashes (md5, sha1, sha2, etc.) for the zero string hash value? (i.e. bytes 0x00 00 00 00 00 ...) Or more specifically, for ...
60 views

### Entropy in relation to computer security [closed]

I am going over some lecture notes and my lecturer is off sick, so not sure where to turn. There is this equation that I cannot understand as it's given with a couple of examples. I was hoping ...
73 views

### Key derivation of public key without knowledge of private key?

I'm looking for a convenient way to share a set of public keys across multiple services, while preserving privacy by preventing these services from tying the identity of these public key sets together ...
64 views