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### FEAL-4 Fk Function 4 Rounds

As I understood in FEAL-4 it needs 4 pair of round keys. Which means that we need to launch Fk function 4 times, but the problem occures on the 2nd round. At first round we have original 64 bits key ...
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### Existence of encryption schemes where $F_{k}^{-1} \big( F_{k}(A) + R \big) = A + O(R)$

Is there a encryption scheme in literature, where I can do something like $$F_{k_1}^{-1} \big( F_{k_2}(A) + R \big) = A + O(R)$$ where, $A$ is a $m \times n$ real matrix, $R$ is a $m \times n$ real ...
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### Generating cyclic group for Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption [closed]

I am doing Project under the topic CP-ABE.I need to generate a symmetric bilinear group Go of prime order p and with generator g...Then how to choose random elements from Zp....kindly anyone help ...
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### Counter Mode with a sequence of zeros bits plaintext, is it secure?

I had a quiz last week in computer security course. There was a confusing question that I am still looking for a good and clear answer. First, I know that counter mode with a good block cipher is ...
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### Generation of a cyclic group of prime order

I am trying to implement a cyclic group generator in Java, but I am running into some issues. In many cryptosystems, the following phrase is expressed during the key generation stage. Let G be ...
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### What does K stand for in frequency analysis

It was from frequency analysis lecture and the professor mentioned but I cannot recall. The K value for English was .067, German was .076. The lowest K was Russian which was .056. When the frequency ...
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### How fast would a polynomial time factoring algorithm compute?

I know factoring is the chief means of breaking RSA keys. I know an algorithm that runs in polynomial time would be able to break an RSA key pair "quickly". But how quickly is "quickly"? Note, I'm not ...
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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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### Is adaptive security the same as full security?

This question contains a great answer about adaptive security, but I haven't yet found a proper definition what full security is. Does a stronger security than adaptive security exist or are the two ...
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### Encrypting with Davies-Meyer hash function scheme

So I need to to illustrate Davies-Meyer hash function for a message “123” with 1-byte blocks. I can use the extended ASCII representation where each character is represented as a byte. And I can pick ...
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### Who first published the interest of more than two prime factors in RSA?

Multi-prime RSA is now a well known technique: it uses $k>2$ distinct secret prime factors in the public RSA modulus, with the advantage that, using the CRT, we can gain a speed boost in ...
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### Are there two known strings which have the same MD5 hash value?

Is there an example of two known strings which have the same MD5 hash value (representing a so-called "MD5 collision")?
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### Automatic generation of secure passwords with the least inconvenience for a user

I'm working on a web site for a private company that should allow them to upload files, which will be later retrieved by their affiliates. The site will be available from a public Internet using ...
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### Is BBS used for generation of keys for any modem cryptosystem?

Is there any (current) cryptosystem or digital signature or cryptographic primitive that uses the BBS PRG in order to generate its secret keys?
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### One time pad probability

I'm trying to solve a question about one time pads but I'm not sure if my assumptions are correct. I am to assume that I have a one time pad with perfect secrecy. This one time pad is used to ...
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### Power analysis and exponentiation by squaring

I am trying to understand how one can retrieve the secret exponent via a simple power analysis. Lets suppose that the exponentiation by squaring algorithm is implemented in its simplest form : ...
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### Do any stream ciphers with aperiodic keystreams exist?

Exactly what it says on the tin. I can imagine constructing such keystreams from: The binary expansions of irrational numbers Chaotic systems like the logistic map or the Lorenz attractor. The ...

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