# All Questions

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### Understanding padding oracles - is an attack plausible in my scenario?

I have a scheme that, long story short, uses AES in CBC mode to encrypt third-party credentials for user accounts with a password-derived key. It's been mentioned that the use of CBC mode is a ...
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### inverse element in Paillier cryptosystem

As I know, in Paillier cryptosystem, the encryption $c$ of a message $m$ is calculated as $c=g^m r^n \bmod n^2$. Now, I am wondering if I can derive $g^m \bmod n^2$ given that I know $c$, $r$, and ...
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### Weakness in using only one RSA key pair for two-way communication?

In Alice/Bob/Cindy terms (EDIT: and with a little more detail): Alice and Bob have each securely obtained one key of an RSA keypair from a trusted third party. Alice has one key ($e$ and $n$), Bob ...
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### How does a client verify a server certificate?

As far as I know, when I request a certificate from Verisign (for example), and after they approved that me is me, they create a certificate (for me) which contains the digital signature and public ...
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### Blowfish: hex digits of pi used for s-boxes?

Preface: here is the official site for the Blowfish algorithm: http://www.schneier.com/blowfish.html The Blowfish algorithm uses an s-box, which consists of hex digits of pi (found here: ...
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### Generate hash value using public key along with message

I was trying to understand one way signature chaining on message by saxena and soh. As the message is passed from one user to other, every user can combine their signature to create one single ...
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### BER or DER X9.62 ECDSA signature

The signature format for ECDSA signatures can be encoded using ASN.1 integers according to X9.62 or it can comprise of two integers with the same size as the key size. In case the X9.62 format is ...
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### Solve a problem, thought it was hash length extension, hours later, am I wrong?

Here is my situation. I'm working with an application for which uses hashing to authenticate data. I have a string, which is hashed. It is, like in a hash length extension attack, H(key:known_value) ...
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### Is there a need to encrypt data when send over https? [closed]

I was monitoring web traffic from my Android mobile using Man in the middle proxy. I installed certificate signed from my server in my mobile and I could see all applications sending sensitive ...
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### In what countries am I now allowed to talk about technical details of cryptography? [closed]

I hope this is the correct place to post this, otherwise I'm sorry. The OpenSSL Legality section states: OR EVEN JUST COMMUNICATING TECHNICAL DETAILS ABOUT CRYPTOGRAPHY SOFTWARE IS ILLEGAL IN ...
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### RSA, proof of correct work, if p is not a prime number [duplicate]

Is there any proof of correct work of RSA algorithm, if p is not a prime number? For example: n = p*q, p = p1*p2, where p1 and p2 are primes. Edit: I found that it's called Multiprime RSA, but i ...
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### how to calculate nonlinearity?

I am struggling to understand how to calculate non-linearty of an s-box, could someone show me a detailed example? I found this question which helped a little, but I still didn't get it, if someone ...
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### Is RSA-OAEP secure when e=3? [duplicate]

Is RSA-OAEP secure when the exponent is equal to 3?
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### Given only RSA public key parameters, what security issues might I be able to detect?

I'm attempting to automate some checks against a large list of .NET assemblies, and want to include a test to see if the RSA parameters used to sign the assemblies are sensible. However, since I don't ...
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### Statistical saturation attack on block ciphers

I was wondering if anyone around here could give me some explanation on this type of attacks. Pretty much the only thing that I could find is this What I really need is basic explanation of the ...
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### Encryption with a known plaintext

I'm building an application where users can be a part of groups, and can obtain and distribute URLs from the group page that allow anyone who clicks on them to join said group. Groups should not ...
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### WPA and WPS: connection method [closed]

Do clients use WPS every time when they connect to a WPS-enabled AP? Or maybe they do it just the first time and then they switch to a normal WPA/WPA2 key exchange? If the latter, it's possible for ...
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### FileVault AES-XTS decryption with cipher text that's missing a part

My mac was recently upgraded to OS X Yosemite and FileVault2 full disk encryption was turned on. Encryption finished, but things went horribly wrong and key parts of the disk are filled with all 0s ...