# All Questions

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### Is it possible for a simulator to always abort?

In this paper of J. Baron, et al. (PDF), simulator always aborts the ideal functionality before client outputs its pattern-matching result obtained from the ideal functionality. (See bottom of page ...
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### Why is the XOR of plaintexts equal to the XOR of ciphertexts with a two time pad?

I have been working in the vulnerabilities of the Two Time Pad. So i found in a lot of places, StackExchange included saying, that if two plain texts are encrypted (using XOR) with the same key the ...
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### How does generating random numbers “remove entropy from your system”?

In a previous question, I quoted the --gen-random entry in the GPG Man Pages. At the end it says: PLEASE, don’t use this command unless you know what you are ...
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### gpg --gen-random quality level: is higher “better”?

The GNU Privacy Guard manual pages have this to say about using the gpg --gen-random 0|1|2 count command: Emit count random bytes of the given quality level 0, ...
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### For a given PlainText-CipherText pair how many valid keys are there in AES?

For $PT\in \mathbb{M}$ and $CT\in \mathbb{C}$, let $\mathbb{F}=\{f|f:\mathbb{M}\rightarrow\mathbb{C}\}$ be the collection of all functions from $\mathbb{M}$ to $\mathbb{C}$. Then AES encryption under ...
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### Is this a correct way of use symmetric encryption?

If I want to encrypt some block of text in AES, but at the time of decryption I don't have a way to check if the symmetric key is the correct one. So I: Generate a randomKey, and use that to encrypt ...