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University for Crypto grad study [closed]

(I thought twice before asking this question and quite reluctant to type as well, but I think this would be helpful). I am an undergrad student and choose theoretical computer science as my major. ...
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Book Didactic Security Notions [closed]

I want study more about cryptography reading papers, but I have a problems to understand few concepts: security notions, random oracle model, IND-CCA, ... etc. I began study this concepts by internet: ...
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Obtaining a key that's using ice algorithm

I have a text file that has been processed by the SNOW steganography tool that uses ICE encryption. However, I do not know the key that would enable me to decrypt and retrieve the message hidden. ...
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File Encryption/Decryption in ECB mode [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Removing Padded Value in Decrypted Message I tried to encrypt and decrypt a file in ECB mode using AES Algorithm but I encountered one problem during decryption, I don't ...
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How can we find Public key have only 8 or 16bits? How many messages does Eve need to know the Public key in RSA?

Suppose Alice sends messages to Bob by encrypting the messages with Bob's public key. Eve knows that the data is encrypted using RSA, but does not know the public key. Can Eve figure out the public ...
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Key Derivation from Random Seed

I would like to generate a key which would be good enough to be used for encryption with AES in a mobile environment. My idea is to use as a seed ''random attributes'' from a mobile device. Is hashing ...
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Is complexity of ElGamal cryptosystem $O(log(n))$?

ElGamal cryptography is $y=g^d \mod p$ having complexity $O(log(p))$. $C1= g^r\mod p$ and similarly $C2$ and the decryption has same complexity of $O(log(p))$. So can we say that the total complexity ...
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Calculating periodicity of a pseudo random number generator (Middle-square method) [on hold]

Below is a Python code that calculates the periodicity of the middle-square method for a given 4 digit-numbers: ...
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Test PFS / EC-DHE authentication support [closed]

Can someone give me examples of testing of a website for PFS/ECDHE authentication support? I was hoping I could do it with cURL first and then OpenSSL, but I am open to any cli tools. On one guys' ...
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Security Model of Group Key Transfer Protocols [closed]

I have read many papers about Group Key Transfer (GKT) Protocol. However, no security models are given in this papers. I want to know whether there is a security model for GKT, and how to prove the ...
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If I add a stream of true and pseudo random numbers, do I get another stream of true random numbers? [duplicate]

I am thinking of buying a USB hardware advertised as producing a stream of 'high quality' random numbers which I take to mean they are indistinguishable from a stream of 'true' random numbers. If I ...
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Determining if a stream of bits is statistically random [duplicate]

Suppose I would like to build a hardware RNG. The details aren't important but let's say I've found a way to generate theoretically random bits, and I want to test to see if they are in fact "random ...
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how to rememeber passwords securely? [migrated]

Imagine you have a private RSA-key on your computer encrypted (through PBKDF2, AES-CTR, HMAC256) with a password, now if the user would like to tick "Remember Password", what is the most secure way to ...
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What does it mean that a protocol realizes “strong mutual authentication”?

What does it mean that a protocol realizes "strong mutual authentication"? And What does it mean that a protocol realizes "weak mutual authentication"? Can you define them formally ? I have found a ...
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How is a Yubikey static password derived from the AES key?

When I configure a Yubikey slot as static, it's not documented or obvious how the static password yielded by a press relates to the AES key I set. For example: ...
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How to benchmark custom crypto with OpenSSL benchmark suite? [closed]

OpenSSL benchmark suite currently tests the speed of algorithms supported by the library like md5 sha1 sha256 sha512. What if we have a custom crypto algorithm "abc" . How do we benchmark its ...
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Zero Knowledge Proof for Correctness of the product of additive ElGamal Ciphers [duplicate]

Suppose we use Additive ElGamal defined as follows: Let $(K,E,D)$ be a triple. The key-generator $K$ outputs the description of a finite multiplicative group $G$ of prime order $q$, with three ...
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Attacking both authenticity and secrecy in authenticated encryption modes

looks like NIST only approved GCM mode for authenticated encryption and other modes don't have any approval or a good implementation available. Is that possible a weakness in $GHASH$ compromise ...
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Digital Signature using symmetric key cryptography

Generally digital signature is a public key cryptography concept.But it needs high overhead. So is there any publication or link available where 'digital signature using symmetric key' has been ...
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Guessing encryption algorithm based on key and ciphertext

Is it possible to tell which encryption algorithm was used, assuming I have a key and a encrypted text? To not complicate the situation let assume we are speaking about symmetric algorithms only. ...
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Assume that sender and recipient both already have each others public keys(certificates). Sender needs to generate session key to encrypt some data and sends encrypted data to recipient. All offline - ...
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Approaches to decoding data of an unknown type [closed]

This is a high level question. One area of computer science that I'm working on getting better at is encoding and decoding data. My background is that of a self-taught web engineer who is trying to ...
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Sematically Secure McEliece

I am read the Lemma 2 (pp13) in the paper "Kazukuni Kobara and Hideki Imai: Semantically Secure McEliece Public-Key Cryptosystems –Conversions for McEliece PKC– (PKC 2001)". Related to the question ...
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Can Diffie-Hellman generate values in a specified range?

Is there any way to generate values only between $0$ and $255$ with the Diffie-Hellman method? I need to create keys for communication algorithms with $32$ and $16$ numbers between that range. The ...
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How secure is the Vigenère cipher in file encryption if you encrypt the password first?

I created a basic file encryption method, that seems pretty secure to me (based on an answer below, it seems to be an implementation of the Vigenère cipher) , but one of my colleagues claims that it ...
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How can I find the prime numbers used in RSA?

I got this question in a local hacking event, but I couldn't solve it. Problem Statement ---- Continuing their snooping habit, NSA kept bugging Alice's communication. Resorting to the age old ...
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moduli in SSL certificates [closed]

this is normally seen in a typical SSL certificate. For the modulus, I know that it is represented in hexadecimal form, but why is there a semicolon (:) after every group of 2 digits? ...
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How do I choose the best 3*3 s-boxes?

I've read about 20 papers about the criteria for choosing best $n \times n$ s-boxes. Now, I've got two problems: How to generate $2^{24}$ s-boxes, and how to test them considering the criteria. ...
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How to write the encrypted message after using RSA

I have created a RSA encryption/decryption program but how do i write out the results after doing a encryption? Right now I have it so that it will just print out the decimal value of one character ...
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How to decrypt 3DES in ECB mode (using a wordlist)?

I have some encrypted texts (encrypted with 3DES in ECB mode without salt). My question: How can I decrypt them using a wordlist? (or without one) Example: Encrypted text: ...
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How to best mix two arbitrary/random n-bit words? [closed]

Given two arbitrary/random $n$-bit words, how could one best mix them to get one $n$-bit word for general crypto usages? I suppose that one should have an adequate measure of goodness of the mix ...
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What is the difference between homomorphic encryption and homomorphic signature? [closed]

I want to apply homomorphic signature instead of homomorphic encryption in Provable data possession. So I want to know about homomorphic signature and homomorphic encryption.
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Is my one time pad cipher secure?

This is a program that I made for encrypting text files. It uses a one time pad cipher to encrypt the files, but I do not know if there is any holes in my program that could be a vulnerability. Is my ...
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How weak/strong is this hand cipher? (updated) [closed]

In simple steps here the system: first write text. hand cipher then divide into groups of three letters: han dci phe r then choose a key consisting of three letters, for example ...
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Textbook RSA with exponent e=3 [duplicate]

I remember $e=3$ is a bad choice for textbook RSA. But I can't really recall why. What happens if I choose $e=3$? Can I retrieve the message by simply calculating $\sqrt[3]{c}$? Why can't I do that ...
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Integers in ECC

Let A be a point on curve with integral coordinates. Does k.A necessarily have integer coordinates? If so than why and if not than how to find A and k such that k.A has integral coordinates.
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How many possible input files are there who's length can be stored in 63-bits?

I'm trying to calculate how many possible combinations of files there can be using a signed 64-bit file length, but can't seem to find a formula (or I'm using the wrong keywords). For example, the ...
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Uniform distribution/randomness of characters in the sha256 hash?

I'm using the sha256 algorithm to generate a number in one of my programming projects. A sha256 hash is calculated from three strings: one the user can edit, one the user can view but not edit and one ...
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is there an algorithm to encrypt all the datatypes?

Is there an algorithm or technique to encrypt all the datatypes such as (video , image , text , fax, audio ,file,etc...) -one algorithm encrypt every thing-? also if I try to build such this ...
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function of crypt called “ICE” [closed]

Using exeinfo, I have identified a function of crypt called ICE. What is it? How can I find ...
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Suppose I have a random number (eg 625 467 921). I use it once to encrypt a message OTP style, and when I want to use them again, I reverse them (eg to ...
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Encrypting with private key in Public Key InfraStructure [closed]

In Public key infrastructure, the MD5 of a piece of data is encrypted with the private key of a sender and this encrypted MD5 – along with the data – is again encrypted using an algorithm like AES or ...
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How to hack the new save encryption on ipad for uplink? [closed]

The new iPad version of Uplink appears to be using some newer saving mechanic than the PC/Mac version. Macs and PCs use the REDSHIRT format, but the iPad appears to instead be using ...
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pairing-based schemes

some authors claimed that computational performance of a pairing-fee scheme (based on scalar multiplication over an elliptic curve group) is about 1000% more efficient than a pairing based one I would ...
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How to find out the method used to encrypt [closed]

How to find out the method used to encrypt the string 123456 which results in the value: 6g9SkDLIKa8l2VhafFnHvg==?
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Python KDF - Master Key and Derivatives

The encrypted file can be opened by following combinations (either any 2 DK, or 1 MK): DK1 + DK2 DK1 + DK3 DK2 + DK3 DK1 + DK2 + DK3 MK Any heads-up with Python ...
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Let $g$ be a group generator of prime order $q$. Suppose we are given two elements $g^y$ and $x_1$. Can we find out if $y=x_1+x_2$ for some $x_2$? Thanks
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How to Mathematically Prove the Bilinear Pairing Properties [closed]

I am currently working on Bilinear Pairing.To start my work i need to find the mathematically prove of three properties of bilinear pairing. Let $G_{1}$ and $G_{T}$be a cyclic multiplicative ...
Given an curve with equation $y^2=x^3+ax+b$, I want to find the number of pairs $(a,b)\in \mathbb{F}_p \times \mathbb{F_p}$ NOT on the curve. How do I do it? I have an intuition that it is $p$, but ...
Let $G_1, G_2$ be additive groups and $G_T$ a multiplicative group, all of prime order $p$. Let $P$ in $G_1, Q$ in $G_2$ be generators of $G_1$ and $G_2$ respectively. A pairing is a map: \$e:( ...