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### Is the “Hash Tree” described in this paper the same as a Merkle Hash Tree?

I'm implementing an algorithm from a paper, and part of it calls for using a "hash tree". Since I'd never heard of that data structure I looked it up on Wikipedia. It turns out that the name hash tree ...
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### Do we still need HMAC now that SHA3 is here? [duplicate]

In Another look at HMAC from Koblitz and Menezes, they state that HMAC came along because doing h(secret || message) was vulnerable to length extension attacks. But as far as I know, these kind of ...
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### What do Quantum computers mean for security? [closed]

I know that Quantum computers can speed up brute forcing a key by a ton, but how much? And what does that mean for privacy? Does this just mean that the FBI's side of that court case has won until the ...
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### Affine decryption

A message has been converted to ASCII and then encrypted with the formula: $$ax+b \equiv n \pmod {215475}$$ The encrypted message is: ...
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### Did authentication/signature primitives fall under the Wassenaar Arrangement?

I understand that under the Wassenaar Arrangement, encryption algorithms like AES were considered to be some sort of weapon. The legally allowed effective key sizes in export software were limited to ...

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