# All Questions

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### Best choice of finite field for AES on a 4-bit microcontroller?

As the finite field of $GF(2^8)$ are isomorphic to $GF((2^4)^2)$, $GF((2^2)^4)$ and $GF(((2^2)^2)^2)$, which of the fields is best suited and most efficient for 4-bit MCU and why? Would it be ...
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### Is there any serious discussion about using blinding intermediaries in digital currency scenarios?

A digital currency system like Lucre (OpenTransaction) creates a coin by a mint blind signing the output of a hash function, which the payer then unblinds and pairs with the input to the has function. ...
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### How is the MJH double-block-length hash function constructed?

I'm looking for information on the MJH double-block-length hash function, but the best free source I could find is the diagram on page 18 of Efficient hashing using the AES Instruction Set (submitted ...
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### Padding schemes for asymmetric encryption with provable security in the standard model

Most padding schemes for asymmetric encryption (OAEP, OAEP+) are only proven secure in the random oracle model. Although no attacks are known, it would be nice to find a padding scheme with provable ...
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### Which values to store in rainbow table generation?

According to the Wikipedia and Philippe Oechslin's Making a Faster Cryptanalytic Time-Memory Trade-Off (pdf), both starting points and endpoints are keys. Here is an example from Wikipedia: As you ...
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### How do I validate the AES cipher?

I have used AES CTR mode of operation. Each time a file is uploaded an encrypted file is obtained and the corresponding cipher is got – this is a mini project I have done. I wanted to know so as to ...
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### Why ssh-gen makes difference between PEM and PKCS8?

Correct me if I am wrong, but PKCS8 is format to store private key info. It could be binary-enoded (DER) or Base64 encoded ...
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### Statistical tests for PRNG that generates a sequence which is not binary

Is there a pratical application to PRNG that generates a sequence which is not a binary one? A ternary, quaternary sequence, for instance. If so, how can we test this? Is there any alternative test ...
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### How to prove that an integer is hard to factorize when sampled from a known distribution

Suppose that an $n$-bit integer $c$ has been randomly drawn from a distribution $\chi$, whose description is known. Is there a general method to check if this particular sampling helps factorize $n$? ...
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### Small subgroup attack on Diffie-Hellman key exchange

Alice and Bob are using DHKE in the group $\mathbb{Z}_p^ *$, where $p = 1031 = 2 \cdot 5 \cdot 103 + 1$. Their generator $g = 2$, which generates a multiplicative group of order $515$ in ...
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### How to choose the reduction function in rainbow tables?

I have a question regarding Reduction Functions in Rainbow Tables. If the hashing function is MD5 or SHA-1 etc then should the reduction functions also be MD5 or SHA-1? That is, should the Reduction ...
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### Understanding Hellman's TMTO

I am trying to understand the basic TMTO by Diffie Hellman as described here. I am having trouble understanding this passage here: Hellman had the idea of storing the dictionary in the form of ...
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### Is ChaCha12 considered 256-bit secure?

ChaCha20 is considered 256-bit secure (no attack faster than brute force). However, the best known cryptanalysis that I know of is on ChaCha7. That gives ChaCha20 a rather large security margin ...
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### How to design a deliberately weak PRNG for experimentation?

I'm looking for a PRNG that is deliberately weak, that is, follows a set of rules stochasticly. For example: Encounters a set of bits that is a multiple of X, starts exhibiting bias, or starts to ...
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### How to attack RSA-CRT with large public exponent?

Suppose we have $(n,e)$ and the ciphertext $c$ where the public exponent $e$ is of the same length, 1023-bit, as the modulus $n$. It is also assumed that the factors of $n$ are balanced. The message ...
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### Determining if Server/Client's TLS configuration is Vulnerable to SLOTH

In the context of SSL/TLS protocol and SLOTH vulnerability. I want to find out if certain websites(webservers) or applications that use TLS are vulnerable. I need some guidance for this. My idea is ...