# All Questions

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### run length testing [closed]

Looking for guidance/references with/about calculations: I am designing a widget that creates N-bit binary sequences. My customers target spec for the sequence's minimum entropy is X bits/bit. I plan ...
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### Is SRP post-quantum secure?

Just a simple one: is SRP-6a post-quantum secure? If not, are there any post-quantum secure "SRP-6a-like" alternatives?
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### Simple proof of work example?

Can anyone show me a simple proof of work algorithm that I can use to stop spammers? I've looked at hashcat, but i think there's a bit too much specialized hardware for bitcoin mining. That is, the ...
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### Theoretical attack on RSA

The high security of RSA is granted, because it is very hard to factorize $$N = p * q$$ Nevertheless, there is actually no need of factorizing $N$, in order to generate the $Private$ $Key$, but the ...
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### Composing and Inverting Symmetric Encryption Keys

Using a symmetric encryption algorithm $E$ on a message $M$, users usually send $E(M)$ to the recipient and then the recipient will compute $E^{-1}(E(M))=M$ to retrieve the message. For what symmetric ...
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### Given a 'good' basis for a lattice, how can we solve the CVP?

I'm doing a little bit of reading about lattices. I read that if we can find a 'short' basis for our given lattice, we can solve CVP and SVP very efficiently. However, the paper didn't describe an ...
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### Is perfect-forward secrecy achieved with RSA?

I am new to cryptography and am going through the book Understanding Cryptography by Paar and Pelzl. From what I understand Symmetric key distribution systems like Kerberos do not provide PFS ...
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What is the disadvantage of AES-GCM mode for authenticated encryption? Why does the CAESAR competition say that it’s one of the goals to find an AE scheme that offers an advantage over AES-GCM? What ...
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### How do I extract the private key components $N$ and $D$ from a private RSA key? [migrated]

I have a private RSA key like – for example – this one: ...
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### Questions on FHE over the Integers - the question modified!

I modified my question since it is not as specific as I wanted. I'm studying FHE over the Integer which is https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/616.pdf I got questions about the proof of Lemma A.1. In page ...
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I'm trying to analyze a login protocol based on symmetric key cryptography. I'm just starting out, so this may very likely be a very bad idea, but nonetheless I'd like to hear your thoughts on it. ...
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### Using Lattice-based cryptography for TLS\SSL

Given the general benefits of Lattice-based cryptography, such as: Post quantum Security Security from worst case scenario Efficiency What could the outlook of shifting from RSA \ ECC-based ...
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### PGP String to Key specifiers

I've been reading through the PGP Standard and here I'm a little confused. This section is discussing converting string data to a session key. I'm confused about the paragraph in bold. First off, what ...
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### Is this an acceptable All-or-Nothing Transform?

I was thinking about AONTs, and designed the one below, I call it CHANT for Chained-Hash All-or-Nothing Transform; it's my very first shot at something of the sort, and was hoping I could get your ...
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### Encrypted files in an encrypted partition or folder

Recently I started wondering about multiple encryption and found pages upon pages of posts and debates about the security of cascades. Now, don’t worry – I'm not looking for someone to discuss a ...
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### Challenge-response based on public-key decryption, why send public key

Quoting the handbook of applied cryptography, chapter 10.3.3 (i): Identification based on PK decryption and witness. Consider the following protocol: $A \leftarrow B: h(r), B, P_A(r,B)$ ...
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### Test Vectors for ciphers

While implementing ciphers (/hash functions, ...), I often face this problem: Where to find test vectors for it; so that I can guarantee my program is correct. It is generally a tedious job to find ...
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### Would it be possible to crack the key used for params given DES [duplicate]

I am working on a product that will link back to another product. The problem is the GET params on the target product are encrypted using DES (I believe) so the params look like... ...
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### Public key Issue - same key pair as existing one? [duplicate]

My question is a bit naive, but what if someone generates the same RSA key pair as someone else? This person would have the same private key and so would be able to decrypt messages not intended to ...
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### ECDH anonymous key exchange to avoid PKI

I want to use TLS to encrypt the communication between peers in a P2P network. Each peer has a well known 256bit peer identifier (the public key of a 256bit elliptic curve keypair). Both peers need ...
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### TLS WG Charter and Security Goals [migrated]

I was looking at the TLS Working Group Charter. I noticed that confidentiality and integrity of messages for those who desire it are not goals for the group. Naively, I believe confidentiality and ...
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### OTT service using FPE

Would it be possible to create an Over-The-Top communication utility that will encrypt voice using format preserving encryption (voice clear-text to audio encrypted stream) and send that over an ...
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### Implementing CD serial key system

I am trying to create a system where to unlock the application one needs to enter a serial code. I have read many articles on the theme but there are two problems bugging me. One is, If I have a ...
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### The REACT transform and Replayable CCA

Before stating my questions, let us recall the REACT transform [OP01], which enables to construct a CCA-secure hybrid PKE scheme, $\varepsilon'_{pk}$, from an OW-CPA PKE scheme ...
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### Is it secure to use Diffie-Hellman key agreement to generate a nonce?

I have a system, using AES, in one of the modes that uses a nonce and authentication. We have a pre-shared key, and to agree about initial nonce we could use Diffie-Hellman, using the resulting ...
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### Adding points on Elliptic Curves

How do we add the integer points $P=(-1, 4)$ and $Q=(2, 5)$ on the elliptic curve of the form $y^2=x^3+17$ ?
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### Known plaintext attack on ElGamal encryption

Assume that Alice uses Bob’s ElGamal public key ( = 2, Yb = 8) to send two messages $M = 17$ and $M' = 37$ using the same random integer $k = 9$. Eve intercepts the ciphertext and somehow she finds ...
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### Compression function to guarantee randomness of one time pads?

First of all, I would like to note that I am not building my own crypto. I am simply curious and would like to learn. What I am wondering is this: if we are worried about randomness of something ...
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### Understanding Lattice based cryptosystem [closed]

I have heard that there is one paradigm of Public key cryptosystem, called Lattice based crytography. Further, its security claims are such that it will not be affected even if the quantum computers ...
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### Whitening and randomness extraction

The Von Neumann randomness extractor is explicitly mentioned in the randomness extractor page of Wikipedia, but strangely enough that page does not contain any reference to whitening the results of an ...
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### CSPRNG that cannot be used as random extractor

Are there any specific CSPRNG's that cannot be used as randomness extractor within a TRNG? In other words, can you simply provide enough entropy gathered from a good entropy source as seed in any ...
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