# All Questions

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### Differential Privacy and appropriate noise distribution

In differential privacy solutions and more specifically for queries that they do entail counting the proposed solutions define the laplace distribution that is best calibrated for low error. Other ...
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### Feldman's VSSS: Showing the Correctness of shares that are Consistent

This is something with which I am struggling to get my head around. In Feldman's VSSS, I am aware that the Dealer broadcasts exponentials $a_{1},...,a_{t-1}$ of the secret $K$ and the coefficients ...
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### Problems in the results of NIST PNRG suite

I am a beginner in the field of cryptography.I have problems interpreting the NIST (sts-2.1.2) suite results. After running the statistics with 100 samples (each sample of 1000000 byte length) a new ...
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### Why should I use X.509 Authentication over PKC based Authentication?

So I have two examples and I don't understand why one would be chosen over the other. Example 1. A sends EPUb[r1] to B (asks B to prove knowledge of ...
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### Epsilon Differential privacy using laplace distribution

Given Database X={x_1 ,x_2 ,...X_n} where x_i represent a bit Let f(x) = Sum x_i for 1 <= i <= n Let Y ~laplace(1/(epsilon)) I succeeded proving that Mechanisms: M1(x)= Y-f(x) and M2(x)= ...
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### Key Recovery Smart-Vercauteren SWHE

In the article (https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/571.pdf, pag 8) of Smart and Vercauteren, it is mentioned that the recovery of the private key is an instance of the small principal ideal problem. But I ...
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### white-box cryptography and its applications [closed]

I am a programmer who is doing research into whitebox cryptography. What I hope to do is to use WBC for an DRM application however as some of us may know, WBC is theoretically impossible therefore I ...
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### Programming language for modular arithmetic over large numbers [closed]

I'am trying to implement algorithms on integer factorization.This involves dealing with integers of 200-500 digits and doing modular arithmetic over them.Which programming language has inbuilt support ...
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### What cryptanalysis is possible against two independent keystreams XORed against plaintext?

If a wise person was unsure about which commercial cryptography standards are truly secure from the fascist powers that be, it would seem the obvious option for companies and individuals is to now use ...
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### Simplifying the zero-knowledge proof example? [duplicate]

There is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof#Abstract_example. Now I'm curious about this. Why is it not possible for Victor to stand at the entrance and watch Peggy take one path ...
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### Factors of RSA modulus

In the article A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems, the original RSA article, it is mentioned that Miller has shown that n (the modulus) can be factored using any ...
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### Combining a keystream generator with a block cipher

I understand that: A stream cipher's security is diluted if the same key is used more than once. This is fixed by using an additional initialization vector in the keystream's computation. A block ...
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### How to find the factors of the modulus? [duplicate]

In the article "A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems", the original RSA article, it is mentioned that Miller has shown that n (the modulus) can be factored using any ...
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### ASN.1 encoding off RSASSA-PSS default parameters

I am not totally sure the question belongs to crypto and not stackoverflow but nevertheless... The problem is the encoding of the RSASSA-PSS default algorithm identifier parameters in an X509 ...
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### The perfect way of using IV in CTR mode

I understand that it is necessary to use the same IV for both encryption and decryption in the CTR mode. I'm thinking about the case when I concatenate the secret ...
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### What is the importance of adding round key in AES

I know this may not be the place to ask this but I have found it difficult to find an answer to this question. I know the steps of the AES encryption algorithm but I am finding it difficult to ...
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### Comparison among algorithm based on key length

Some months ago I found in some paper that we cannot compare symmetric algorithm with asymmetric algorithm based on the key length and more important we cannot compare asymmetric algorithm using only ...
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### Difference between Hash function and Random Oracle

Going through the blog post, I was under the impression that any cryptographic scheme which makes use of hash function is said to be using random oracle. But, I have come across one construction of ...
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### Automated testing of cipher security for import/export compliance [closed]

What do we know about systems that automatically test and grade cipher security. The application in mind would be for checking for compliance with import/export regulations. I imagine a system that ...