# All Questions

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### How secure is $\operatorname{AES256}_{\operatorname{ECB}}(\operatorname{ChaCha20}(\text{plaintext}))$?

Suppose I encrypt a bytestream using ChaCha20, and then encrypt the resulting ciphertext using AES in ECB mode. How secure is the combination?
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### Can you give me a summary of cryptographic hardness assumptions?

Until recently, I had a link to a website which summarizes up-to-date cryptographic hardness assumptions. But, unfortunately I cannot find it. The webpage is categorized well problems such as, DL ...
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### Best Attack Against HFE cryptosystem

I am looking for the best know attack against HFE cryptosystem. Reading this paper DEGREE OF REGULARITY FOR HFE I found the next claim However, Faugere and Joux demonstrated that we can solve and ...
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### Are there any crypography schemes which rely on Graph Isomorphism not being in P?

Are there any cryptography schemes having correctness relying on Graph Isomorphism not being in P? If I should ask this question in the CS Theory area, I will migrate it. Thanks.
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### Cloneability of AES-128

I would like to implement an anti-counterfeiting scheme for tools my company manufactures. This would ideally be done via RFID/NFC tags. However, the environment in which these tags operate would ...
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### What is a purpose of reducing lattice basis?

This may be too broad question but it is not. I have been studying lattices for few months now, more specifically I studied: lattice problems ($SVP$, $CVP$ and etc.) lattice cryptography in post ...
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### Finding sum of two encrypted numbers

Let's consider such process: Two emitents emit two (integer) secret numbers independently They encrypt (encode) these number in such a way that no-one (except emitent) can decode these numbers. ...
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### The solution of insert MAC in a ciphertext without Authenticated Encryption supported

From Should we MAC-then-encrypt or encrypt-then-MAC?, I understand I should do Encrypt-than-MAC, which the MAC included all the information such as IV and cipher text. After reading Why choose an ...
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### Authenticated encryption with Signatures

I've given a CPA secure private key encryption scheme (wich gets to a CCA secure scheme or better to an authenticated encryption scheme, when i combine it with a given MAC) and a unforgeable public ...
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### security of Even-Mansour scheme with keyed shuffle

I was researching the Even-Mansour scheme and had a question that wasn't addressed in the paper that I saw, and google was minimally helpful. What if a permutation that uses secret data like the ...
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### Breaking linear blockcipher - expanding recursive formula

I am trying to break a block cipher that can be defined as follows: We have 12 rounds and at each round we perform the following operation. We split 64 bit data into 2 parts each 32-bits, $\ x_r$ ...
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### Publishing only items your subscriber previously subscribed to, without you knowing which those items are

Let's say you were given a dump from a security breach. You want to share the email addresses affected by the breach with a separate company who pays you for this service so that they can protect ...
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### Would LWE problem be still secure if error were like this $e=2e_1$?

In the Learning with error problem, if the error term $e$ from equation $b=<a,s>/q+e$ were of this kind $e=2e_1$, where $e_1$ is chosen according to the probability distribution for the LWE ...
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### Unlinkability of Merkle-Damgård hash function results

Question: Are multiple outputs of a Merkle-Damgård hash function (or specifically SHA-256, if this can only be said for a specific algorithm) on unknown data unlinkable? If yes: Can this be formally ...
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### What is the current encryption method used on GSM currently?

I am currently doing a mini project which sniffs GSM packets using gr-gsm and wireshark. I was wondering if anyone knows what is the name of the current encryption algorithm method used on GSM?
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### how exploitable are cache timing attacks

So there's a PHP package that's been recently written to protect against cache timing attacks: https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/4a1iuh/rfc_4648_character_encoding_written_to_resist/ My question ...
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### Perfect secrecy is maintained for other plaintext prob distributions?

Suppose a cryptosystem achieves perfect secrecy for a particular plaintext probability distribution. Prove that perfect secrecy is maintained for any other plaintext probability distribution. Having ...
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### X509 converted to Encrypted and Signing keys

We have proprietary tool which takes a p12 file and generates a .key file. Inside the key file, I see two PEM formatted sections: Encrypting Certificate and Signing Certificate. When I open them on my ...
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### How common are weak RSA keys?

There exist certain attacks that can be used against RSA keys whose prime factors are of specific forms, such as one by Coppersmith. How common are these RSA keys? If you generate primes randomly, ...
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### Can GCM auth be bitsliced?

Is it possible to use bitslicing for GCM? This seems like a way to allow for a way to avoid cache-timing attacks without PCLMUL instructions and with good performance.
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### DES_cblock and Key Recovery

I'm trying to get my hands on the key that OpenSSL uses for a DES encryption. The key is based off a random number generator with a seed taken as parameter. The code used is below, provided as part ...
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### How to make a “zero knowledge” cache/key-value store

I'd like to use a possibly insecure cache for storing expensive-to-calculate sensitive information. My requirements are: If the cache ever gets compromised it should reveal nothing about its ids or ...
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### Can I get an explanation of HDCP's key exchange protocol?

I'm talking about HDCP v1.x. The specification is a too dense for me and easy-to-understand information about it on the net is scarce. What I've gathered is: that there is a master key that is a 40-...
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### Is this a correct way of use symmetric encryption?

If I want to encrypt some block of text in AES, but at the time of decryption I don't have a way to check if the symmetric key is the correct one. So I: Generate a randomKey, and use that to encrypt ...
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### Which is/are the strongest known Fully Homomorphic Encryption scheme(s)?

As it is discussed here that the highest security any homomorphic encryption scheme is at most IND-CCA1, Is there any known fully homomorphic encryption scheme that achieves this security level? Out ...