# All Questions

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### Can Wireshark be used to trace SSL traffic to a server with DSA private key?

I tried to use wireshark to watch cipher negotiation between browser and a Tomcat server which uses DSA private key. and I got the following debug message: ...
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### How to prove that someone encrypted a specific (large) chunk of data

Alice encrypts her data with HER secret key. Then she sends the encrypted data to Bob who should encrypt it with HIS secret key. Caroline should then eventually get this double encrypted data. ...
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### A software for test and performance analysis of cryptographic algorithms

I'm new to cryptography and I have been assigned at college to do a comparison study between AES, DES, RC6 and SERPENT ciphers. Is there any graphical software than can help me analyze speed and ...
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### Huffman encoding of hashes

I have a huge list of MD5 hashes, which takes up quite some space. I was wondering if I would acheive (some) compression, by encoding the characters (which are A-F 0-9), with huffman coding. I made a ...
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### Curve41417 example

I have done an example, attached as image file, of the algorithm in Curve41417 by Daniel J. Bernstein et al. but my answer is not correct. I have checked it multiple times but couldn't find the ...
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### HKDF entropy extraction

I collect entropy from the following sources: system_entropy = System provided crypto entropy stream (CryptGenRandom on Windows) user_entropy = User-provided entropy - in a form of a byte stream of ...
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### possible MITM attack against servers that used to support weak DH?

from reading the TLS 1.1 RFC, it looks like it would be possible to break a previously recorded TLS <1.2, 512-bit DHE ServerKeyExchange and then send it (unmodified, with the original, valid ...
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### Attacking CBC with predictable but encrypted IV

Let P be a secure block cipher, eg AES-128. Let's say a server has a CBC encryption oracle which uses an attacker-selected yet unique nonce to generate the IV for each message = P(key, nonce). The ...
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### Logjam on Elliptic Curves?

I think we're all aware of the Logjam attack. From now on we know that re-using primes for DH is a bad idea. But we also say that elliptic curves are safe from the attack (relying on the NFS), ...
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### Can a TLS client perform any DH regeneration?

I have only the barest understanding of cryptography, but I've been following the Logjam issue; some posts and articles (elsewhere) imply that a client can regenerate DH keys. Is Logjam solely a ...
Consider a number $r$ obtained by: $r=a \cdot b \mod n$ Can knowing the factorization of $r$ reveal some information (bits) of $a$ and $b$ ?