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### What are the links between Cryptography and Algebraic Topology?

I have asked "What are application of Cryptography in Algebraic Topology". But I want to know whether are there any relation between Algebraic Topology and Cryptography. Are there any application of ...
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### Unlock my ZipCrypto deflate

Can anyone help me I have forgot my password for my file.. ZipCrypto deflate. I need a software to unlock the file. Please anyone assist me on this matter
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### suitable method for encryption and desciption

I want to encrypt and store important data in mysql so that no one else can access its original form and I want to decrypt those data whenever required. Which encryption scheme is suitable for this ...
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### How does SafeNet MobilePASS generate passwords? (TOTP Variant)

This question is similar to How does SafeNet MobilePASS generate passwords? The question and answer there is related to the HMAC Variant of SafeNet Mobilepass. I'm looking for details on the TOTP ...
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### What are the constraints for an IV using AES in CBC mode?

I'm designing a protocol for use into a VPN software. The VPN frames are encapsulated into AES-256 CBC encrypted frames. I understand that IVs must be uniquely used for each message encrypted with ...
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### What is safer: ZipCrypto or AES-256?

Like in title: which one of these encryption methods (ZipCrypto, AES-256) is more secure and why? I am asking about it because I'd like to know which should be preferred when compressing files with ...
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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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### How does combining SHA256 with RIPE-MD160 compare to SHA256 + SHA-3?

Bitcoin stores its addresses as a combined SHA256 + RIPE-MD160 hash. Is it correct to assume this is done to prevent a failure in the algorithm? Since SHA3 was designed to be an alternative to ...
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### Given a message and signature, find a public key that makes the signature valid (ECDSA)

This question is a variant on Given a message and signature, find a public key that makes the signature valid, which discusses the analogous question for RSA. It was suggested to me by this post over ...
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### What does L_n is the bit length of the group order n states need for my calculation in ECDSA algorithm?

I am doing the program of implementing ECDSA for which I am trying to solve the equation scenario. In ECDSA that signature generation algorithm which states as hash value from the SHA-1 and where $l$ ...
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### Combining cascaded encryption keys into one key

Is there an encryption algorithm where it's possible to combine multiple encryption keys into one, so that: $E_{AB}(Data) = E_A(E_B(Data))$ KeyAB should be computable from KeyA and KeyB, but it must ...
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### Is chaotic encryption secure?

I know this sounds too broad. But I noticed that there was a chapter on chaotic crypto in the recent Handbook of Information and Communication Security Editors: Stavroulakis, Peter, Stamp, Mark (Eds.) ...
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### Key space vs Cardinality of 1024-bit RSA

I have been trying to figure out the encryption key space, and cardinality of 1024-bit RSA. From my understanding, the key generated from 1024-bit will be primes greater than $2^{1023}$ but less than ...
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### nonce of AES-GCM in SSL

It seems that the nonce of AES-GCM in SSL has 3 parts: salt, 4 bytes, generated in handshake, not changed in whole session nonce_explicit, 8 bytes, chosen by the sender and carried in each SSL ...
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### Attribute-based broadcast encryption with respect to ABE

What is the exact difference between attribute-based encryption (ABE) and attribute-based broadcast encryption (ABBE)? Is ABBE equivalent to broadcast encryption on top of ABE?
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### Knowing N and a relationship between the 2 prime numbers(p and q) find p and q generated with RSA

Let there be $p$ and $q$, 2 prime numbers for which the following relationship is true: $|p-q| < 2 \cdot N^{1/4}$. The algorithm first generates the prime number $p$, then it generates $q$ close ...
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### Vigenère, auto-correlation vs Kasiski examination

What are the differences between 'Kasiski examination' and 'auto-correlation' ? In Cryptool site, they state that autocorrelation analysis is more efficient and clearer than the Friedman or Kasiski ...
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### What are application of Cryptography in Algebraic Topology

What are application of Cryptography in Algebraic Topology, specially in Category theory?
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### Fault-based transition for crypto proof (a la Shoup) with big probability of fault - does it work?

background In [Shoup2004], Victor Shoup synthesizes the 'sequence of games' technique for proving security properties: Roughly it consists in a sequence from game_0 to game_n, game_0 consisting in ...
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### Is authentication length always a subset of encryption length?

Do in all the use cases, if I have to encrypt and authenticate, encrypt-then-authenticate or authenticate-then-encrypt, like in IPSEC, SSL or SSH or others, if I were to do these operations to a ...
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### Discover key with known-plaintext attack [closed]

You can find the encryption key of these hash? ...
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### What type of encryption is this? [on hold]

I need to know what type of encrpytion is this, ed6467d63c907d220447b00bf875e4e017702ff5
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### Prove there is PRG that is not necessarily one-to-one

We assume that there is at least one PRG .Now prove there is a PRG like $G:\{0,1\}^{n} \rightarrow \{0,1\}^{l(n)}$ such that it is not necessarily one-to-one.
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### Integrity compromised - HASH modified

As we are all aware that HASHing is user to verify integrity in cryptography. I have a query about hashing. Suppose a man in the middle attacker manipulates the data and creates new HASH (by running ...
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### encryption key ends with same pattern [on hold]

We have used "AES algorithm".key length is 256 bit.It is using same secret key to generate multiple encryption key.ALL encryption key ends with same pattern.What is the reason for this.transformation ...
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### How Brittle Are LCG-Cracking Techniques?

There are published techniques for cracking LCGs, but to my eye those techniques seem very brittle — very minor changes can add nonlinearity that renders techniques like the LLL algorithm unusable. ...
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### Build set with PKI from reliable broadcast / random beacon

I am trying to build a protocol (or find an existing one) for creating a set $S_2$ with PKI from a set of parties $S_1$ that initially does not know anything about the other parties. We assume ...
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### Are keys generated by the user or block cipher algorithms themselves? [on hold]

We know block cipher algorithms. In the block cipher algorithms, Key Scheduling is the one crucial part. I see that in some simulation programs of the AES,DES,TripleDES encryption algorithms. In ...
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### How do I control an access code safely?

Upon registration an user has to specify an access code of five digits. This access code is also used as a password for the encryption and decryption of certain strings. The user types in "12345" ...
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### Finding Vignere Cipher key

I am new to cryptography and I am just trying to find key for random text. Can please explain the easy way how we can find the key in small number of steps ? if we have text like Peit Wokm! Mhfa ...
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### What is a Key Derivation Function?

From Wikipedia: In cryptography, a key derivation function (or KDF) derives one or more secret keys from a secret value such as a master key or other known information such as a password or ...
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### Why is the call to RSA_generate_key_ex() failing sometimes? [on hold]

I'm trying to randomly generate a pair of RSA asymmetric keys, however with my current implementation, the RSA_generate_key_ex() method seems to hang forever. I'm unable to extract an error code ...
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### Is there any method to avoid the differential cryptanalysis? [on hold]

May I know the Best ways to avoid the Differential Attack in block cipher algorithms (AES,Speck,Simon etc). The probability of differential cryptanalysis is achieved mostly equal to 1 in speck light ...
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### Is this a good entropy collector and whitening technique?

I'm just reviewing a program someone wrote to provide high quality random data using an entropy collector and a hash based whitening technique. I'll try summarize the process: Collect entropy from ...
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### Fortuna: why are source ID and data length added together with entropy data into the pools

Section 9.5.6 of Cryptography Engineering states that The concatenation [of source number, length of data, and data itself] is then appended to the pool. Why are we including source number and ...
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### dh parameters someone else generated

Am am auditing some software that includes compiled in DH parameters (2048 bits). I can't be sure who generated the DH parameters or how they were generated. Question: Can DH parameters be weak ...
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### Does it make sense to have multiple values of authentication and cipher offsets while encrypting a packet?

Consider a packet with N segments. cofsset(cipher offset - from where one must cipher) lies in arbitrary Segment "A". aoffset (authentication offset - from where one must authenticate) lies in ...
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### RSA modulus (N) from public key and calculating N from p, q not equal [on hold]

I have a RSA public key in the form of public exponent and modulus as follows: ...
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### EC based password authenticated key exchange protocol

I would like to know: What is the currently best (efficiency and security wise) known EC based password authenticated key exchange protocol? (i.e. is there any EC based protocol may be similar to DH ...
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### Popularity of ECMQV authenticated key agreement protocol

I've got a few ECMQV related questions: Why is ECMQV a more efficient EC-based authenticated key agreement protocol? Why is ECMQV so popular? Is it because no other protocol of its strength exists? ...