# All Questions

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### Enigma algorithm Question about the Ringstellung

This might be a stupid question but I need to implement the Enigma algorithm and I don't fully understand how it works. I've googled the subject and I am confused about what the Ringstellung is and ...
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### Calculating XOR Key Sizes

I've been playing around with the Matasano crypto challenges (cryptopals.com). I had a couple false-starts on the challenge that has you creating a program to calculate the key size of a XOR encrypted ...
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### Outsourced Multiparty computation proof in Ideal world

I need to know in an outsourced two party computation where honst $A$ and $B$ outsource their private and secure data to a malicious server, why we need to design a simulator that interacts with an ...
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### Role of trusted party in the Ideal model in Malicious case

Imagine there is a protocol supporting outosurced multi party computation. There are three parties involved in the protocol: client $A$, client $B$ and a server. Client $A$ and $B$ send their private ...
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### Security of a custom non linear hill cipher

Initially let me state that this is an atypical type of cryptographic encoding. First I break up my key into three parts $k = {W,\overrightarrow{b},\alpha}$. the $W$ is simply a $n \times n$ matrix, ...
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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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### How do I prove IND-CPA security of RSA-OAEP?

How do I prove that RSA-OAEP is IND-CPA secure? It would be very good to show how to prove it formally, but an informal proof would also be enough. Because of the random number in RSA-OAEP, RSA gets ...
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### Why is it a bad idea to use Diffie-Hellman with a prime such that $p - 1$ is smooth?

I recently stumbled upon another question in which somebody menitoned that using custom primes for DH is safe if you keep in mind, that $p-1$ should not be a smooth number. Why is that?
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### Decypting a Stream Cipher

I am trying to decrypt a stream cipher. I know what the first word of the message is when decrypted but I am unsure how to decrpyt the rest of the message. I know what the first word is because I ...