# All Questions

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### Algorithm for n-of-m keys with partial results

Is there any known and proven algorithm which allows n-of-m keys en/decryption, but doesn't require the keys to be in one location? That is, it allows the plaintext (or ciphertext) to be encrypted (or ...
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### Malicious party security model: When one party is corrupted at a time

Consider we have three parties,namely client $A$, client $B$ and a server. Client $B$ and the server can be malicious, but we do not allow the adversary to simultaneously corrupt the server and ...
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### Encoding a message to a point of curve y^2=x^3+7 and Bitcoin Core

Where should I look at in Bitcoin Core source code to figure out how the signature process trasform a message in a curve point? To sign a transaction (message) in Bitcoin system, you need to encode ...
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### Why does Diffie-Hellman need be a cyclic group?

Why is Diffie-Hellman defined on a cyclic group? Doesn't it work for any commutative operation which the inverse is hard to find? Say Alice and Bob agree in a public prime $c$ and both choose a ...
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### Key Check Value standard pratice for asymetric cryptography?

I'm looking for a standard, or sound industry practice, for the equivalent of a Key Check Value, applied to the private key of a public key algorithm, like ECDSA. For DES or 3DES keys, practice (as ...
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### Renewing session key

I have a system which (should) never shut down, there are keep alive messages every 30 seconds and normal traffic is very variable, might be a few KB/sec might be nothing more than the keep alive ...
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### Proper way to generate symmetric keys [duplicate]

I'm trying to educate my self in key management, how to store them, how to generate them, how to use them properly. I've been trying to find how you would generate a key for symmetric encryption (say ...
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### Key derivation design to avoid key leaks

I have the first function that generates keys from AES decryption (128-bit key). It takes seed as input: ...
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### Why does spiped use both nonces and ephemeral keys?

Colin Percival's spiped utility uses a pre-shared key and Diffie-Hellman with ephemeral keys to provide forward secrecy. The protocol is summarized in the ...
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### The non-interactive proof of verifiable computation: Pinocchio

I am reading the Pinocchio paper. The paper says, in paragraph "polynomial asymptotics" of section 4.2.1, a worker, in order to include $h(s)$ into the proof, has to interpolate $p(x)$, and then ...
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### Given an encrypted file, what are possible ways to find its encryption algorithm?

Given an encrypted file, what are possible ways to find its encryption algorithm? Heuristic ways are okay as well.
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### What is a good way to handle longer strings using FPE?

While experimenting with this FPE based on FE1 http://botan.randombit.net/manual/fpe.html (well actually a port of it in C#) I found when the string length gets too long (number of characters N) ...
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### Is encryption time greater than decryption time?

Is encryption time always greater than decryption time for all encryption techniques (AES / DES / RSA / DNA), or is there a mistake somewhere in my implementation?
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### Mutual verification of shared secret

Is it possible to develop a scheme where two parties, unsure if they have the same secret, can verify that the other does or does not share the same secret, without one party being able to cheat and ...
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### How to map a handful of numbers in a large range to a much smaller range deterministically without collissions

I want to map a set of long integers (say around 100 different values) that can span the entire 64 bit integer range to a much smaller range such as from 0 to 25000 deterministically with almost zero ...
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### Does “identity-based dynamic threshold signature” exist and could such scheme contain a “Signature Combination” algorithm?

I came across [1] and I'm very puzzled by this paper. They use a building block which they call "identity-based dynamic threshold (IBDT) signature", citing paper [2]. First of all [2] does use this ...
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### Brute-force attack given small search-space and hash prefix

Suppose we have a value $secret which is a random 56-bit (7-byte) string. Suppose an adversary wishes to discover$secret. The ...
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### What is the “Walsh Function” about?

I'm currently dealing on the so called “Walsh Function” (WF) that is written like: $$f^W(a)=\sum_{x\in{F^n_2}}(-1)^{f(x)+(a,x)}$$ What I know is that this function is used to approximate an arbitrary ...
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### How difficult is homomorphic encryption? [closed]

I want to learn more about homomorphic encryption and eventually make a career from it. Currently, I'm thinking to have my bachelor degree in this field. What background should I have for this ? How ...
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### How to calculate if probability is negligible or not

If i have probability $Q = 2C(A\times B)$ where $A$ and $B$ are unknown probabilities and $C$ is a non-negligible probability, what can i speculate about probability $Q$ and how can i calculate bounds ...