# All Questions

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### ssh-keygen bit why not use 4095 or 4097? [duplicate]

All examples of using ssh-keygen I have seen has always been some power of 2 (2048, 4096). ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 Why use those numbers? Why not use 3333? ...
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### Weak Boneh-Boyen Signature in Composite order group

In the paper Ring Signatures of Sub-linear Size Without Random Oracles, authors have remarked that the scheme is instantiable in composite order setting, too. I am attaching the following reference ...
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### How to attack this authentication protocol

Let us consider the following protocol, I have a project and I need help to attack this protocol : A -> B : A, Na B -> A : B, Nb A -> S : {A, Na, Nb} Kas S -> A : {A, Na, Nb, Ns, Kab} pub(A) A ...
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### Using Permutation polynomial to compute a MAC

Is the following MAC secure? For a block $y_i$ in a file, we defined a MAC as follows: $Mac_i:PRF(k,i) \cdot g^{y_i \cdot r_i} \bmod p$. Where $p$ is a prime number, $g \in \mathbb{G}$,$PRF(k,i)$ is ...
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### Chosen-prefix collision attack on 24 bit truncated sha-256

I need to answer this question for an exercise: I have a file on which a sha-256 hash is calculated, but only the first 24 bits of the hash are considered. I want to find another file which results ...
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### PRF based on the GGM construction

What's the differences between the concepts “pseudorandom generator” and “pseudorandom number generator”? In fact, I want to implement a pseudorandom function based on GGM's construction at ...
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### Python implementation of a blind signature scheme which doesn't involve RSA

RSA seems a bit creepy after the Snowden revelations and i'm looking for a simple python based blind signature library to fiddle around with. So far i've been unable to find anything. What am i ...
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### How secure is it to use password as AES key?

I am developing a steganography app where user encrypt any file into an audio file. The user can enter a password to protect the hidden data. The same password is converted as a 256 bit key and the ...
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### Merkle hash tree updates

It seems that merkle hash tree (MHT) traversals have been discussed somewhat in the literature, but there does not appear to be much written on inserting, deleting, and updating leaves. Is this lack ...
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### Usage of GF(p^m) fields, where p != 2

$GF(2^m)$ Galois fields are widely used in different cryptographic algorithms, for example, in Rijndael. However, $GF(p^m)$ fields are possible with any prime $p$, not only 2, but $GF(2^m)$ fields ...
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### Definition of the Decryption oracle

In the context of public-key encryption, what would be a formal definition of the decryption oracle? I know the informal definition (i.e., a function that is available to the adversary and that ...
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### Any ideas on login using Digital Signature PKCS

I am curious to know about possibility to login into web application just by identifying the user based on digital signature in usb token. any reference in this direction?
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### 1 Billion Bit Encryption?

So, browsing through YouTube, I stumbled on this video interview of John Draper (Captain Crunch), one of the first "hackers". He talks for about 3 minutes (until 27:48) about his home rolled ...
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### How do I communicate the value of the initialization vector to the end user? Should it be part of the encrypted message?

I am taking a cryptography class and our first homework is to implement a 32-bit block cipher. I implemented a simple block-cipher that uses CBC. Currently, my implementation reads both the 32-bit IV ...
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### RSA: How effective is this keypair-trash attack [duplicate]

A question that could very well be part of xkcd's "what if?": Let's say Monica made a piece of software that sends all RSA keypairs to a central database after they're not used anymore. Something ...
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### Applications of GF(p) polynomials

A Galois field of the type $GF(p)$, where $p$ is prime, is normally expressed as the ring of integers modulo $p$. If my understanding is correct, it is also possible to represent its elements as a ...
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### Generate secure password hashes without access to PBKDF2 or bcrypt

Given is a system, which does provide only implementations of fast hash algorithms (MD5, SHA1, SHA-256, SHA-512). There is no implementation of PBKDF2, bcrypt or scrypt available. The system does ...
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### x509 Certificate Signature

I've got a question about the signature of a CA. As I understand, the CA takes the public key of the client and signs it with his own private key by using "md5WithRSAEncryption" (like explained here: ...
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### Is this a valid “fix” for deterministic encryption in encrypted databases?

It appears (after doing some light research) that for encrypted databases to be practical enough to be usable, deterministic encryption is required, specifically with regard to the type of encryption ...
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### Negative exponents in Shoup's threshold RSA?

I'm trying to implement threshold RSA operations, starting with decryption based on Peeters, R., Nikova, S., & Preneel, B. (2008). Practical RSA Threshold Decryption for Things That Think. ...
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### With wrong IV at receiver side, the CFB in better than OFB?

Assume the receiver have a wrong IV (initialization vector), in the CFB mode only the first block of plaintext is wrong but in OFB mode the second and all blocks will be affected. Is that correct? ...
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### Why isn't CTR mode (counter mode) used more often?

For the CTR mode, the design is good for parallelization, yes, it seems the benchmark of the program downloaded from crypto++ proves that on an Intel I7 CPU. My question is that as most of CPU on ...
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### Problem in understanding Blakley's Secret Sharing Scheme

I need to implement Blakley's Secret Sharing Scheme. I have read below mentioned two research papers but still unable to understand how to implement it. Safeguarding cryptographic keys Two Matrices ...