# All Questions

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### Can someone please explain to me what this means?

I'm taking a cryptography class and I was assigned this for a project: Implement automatic ElGamal text encryption/decryption I'm not sure what it means (but I'm familiar with discrete logs and ...
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### Javascript Information Dispersal Algorithm [on hold]

I am trying to implement a webapp that is encrypting and distributing files on multiple clouds - similar to the DepSky system (http://www.gsd.inesc-id.pt/~mpc/pubs/eurosys219-bessani.pdf), but I am ...
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### Maturity of searchable encryption schemes [on hold]

Is searchable encryption industry ready with product implementations?If yes kindly give me the name of products over which it is used.
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### CoAP authentication using DTLS

what is the meaning of this notation ?? AES{Yi, (Yi XOR Ki | nonce1)} https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bhattacharyya-core-coap-lite-auth-00
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### Elliptical curve cryptography key generation time

I am currently trying to learn more about Elliptical curve crypthography and have finally started to get things working and undestanding the different pieces. I've written a small project in C# and ...
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### Cracking RSA with Small exponent 5

I have read following questions - Cracking an RSA with no padding and very small e Small Encryption Exponent where in first it says to run out all the possible m options and second says factor ...
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### Sharing an encrypted file between a group of people

Is there any way to share an encrypted file with a group? In the other words, can I encrypt a file with a public key so that each person in a group decrypt it with his/her private key? Is there any ...
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### Wiring pattern for field multiplier

I am doing a project to implement point multiplication unit in elliptic curve cryptography. Going for a galois field multiplier in normal basis. The point multiplication unit is for higher field size ...
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### simulating rc4-256 with rc4-128

OpenSSL supports rc4 with 128-bit keys and rc4 with 40-bit keys. It does not support rc4 with 256-bit keys. My question is... is it possible to modify the state of the pseudo-random generation ...
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### what are multi-primes and how are they different from semiprimes?

I came to know of semiprimes recently. The simplest explanation of semiprimes is you take any two prime numbers and you multiply them, say 3*11 = 33 in which case 33 would be a semiprime. The numbers ...
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### Cracking plain RSA by factoring the modulus n

This is the setup: I have both public and private keys of one "instance" of RSA. And I have only the public key of another RSA cryptosystem, but this system has the same modulus as the first one. I ...
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### Real life RSA/El Gamal examples

Can someone direct me to examples of El Gamal and RSA that would be similar to real life (i.e. large primes). I wrote a code for encryption and decryption, but I wanted to test it against some larger ...
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### Where to store the file extension to retrieve it correctly after decryption

I am using Java to write AES-256 to encrypt various files with different extension, the problem is, where am I suppose to store the file extension so the if the data is decrypted, the file extension ...
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### Research Path For Searchable Encryption [on hold]

Can anyone give me a list of basic cryptographic primitives and concepts I should know to take up a doctoral research in Searchable Encryption?(If it is impossible to list out, can somebody give links ...
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### Less known hash functions producing 128 bit hash

Good day. While reversing a malware I stumbled upon a function producing 16 byte hash. I tried to determine which one is that by checking every function from wiki. Nothing fits. So, there are two ...
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### Efficient proof of knowledge using Wegman-Carter hash

A verifier wants to ensure, with only little exchange of data with other systems, that a large block of data $M$ that the verifier holds is also available to some other system(s). It is not an ...
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### Inverse of a function $f_k(x) := f (x ⊕ k) ⊕ k$

$f : \{0, 1\}^4 → \{0, 1\}^4$ Given a function $f_k(x) := f (x ⊕ k) ⊕ k$, what is the inverse function $f_k^{-1}$? I could not figure out how this would be done. Thanks.
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### Feistel network output if round function is the identity function

I v been trying to solve this question from the book Introduction to cryptography but fail to find an answer, can someone please explain to me. Thanks What is the output of an r-round Feistel ...
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### Secure(verifiable, delegated, outsourced) computation

Can we think "secure (verifiable, delegated, outsourced, 2-parties and multi-parties) computation" as a same single concept, or should we consider these secure protocols as different concepts? If ...
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### El gamal correctness

I tried to find online for the correctness of El-Gamal, but I couldn't find any good resource that will teach me how to show the correctness of El-Gamal, could any body show me how is it done?
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### ElGamal signatures' secret key

Assume I recovered the ElGamal signatures (75,18) and (75,67) Alice produced on the messages 81 and 14, respectively. Alice's public key is (alpha,beta,p)=(2,35,101). How can I recover Alice secret ...
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### What is the difference between IND-CCA2 and NM-CCA2? And how does one imply another?

Is there any proof that shows the equivalence of these two?
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### ECDSA algorithm using PBC library [on hold]

I am doing a project on Identity Based Cryptography.I am doing coding using PBC library. I have a problem in verifying signature .i am using ECDSA algorithm.. can u tell me why signature does not ...
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### Mifare Classic and crypto1 algorithm

Mifare's Crypto1 algorithm uses a 48-bit LFSR. What does the 48-bit LFSR do exactly ?
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### A rudimentary challenge–response authentication based on dot products in $\mathrm{GF}(2)^k$

We are building a rudimentary challenge–response authentication protocol based on dot products in $\mathrm{GF}(2)^k$. Assume a user has a password $\mathbf{p} \in \mathrm{GF}(2)^k$. When logging in, ...
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### Building a pad for OTP on-the-fly with Diffie-Hellman

Through repeated DH attempts, could Alice and Bob build a large random key for use as a one-time pad? My intuition is that this protocol would be as hard as breaking DH (discrete logarithm).
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### Decrypt with only the cipher file and the key?

I got an encrypted file, and I got the key. The only thing I don't know is "how it has been encrypted". The cipher file is "data" type (not readable by a text editor), but the key is a "text". Do ...
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### Recipient ID asked whie using Symmetric encryption with GnuPG [migrated]

I'm trying to encrypt a file using AES algo and sign it using my private key in GPG. The command I'm using is gpg --encrypt --symmetric --cipher-algo aes256 --armor --sign input-file It asks me for ...
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### Private Information Retrieval--Is it still theoretical?

Are there any real world products in which private information retrieval techniques are used?(a data hosting server oblivious of which data item was fetched from it?)If not what are the major barriers ...
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### Is salt bring more security for digital signature! [on hold]

Is it good idea to use salt in digital signature? Is it bring more security? If so, I should use it for key or the message?
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### Recover a secret message in a .wav file [on hold]

First, I apologize for my english, I'll do my best. On my computer, I got a .wav audio file that hides a secret message. I want to recover that message. But I'm stuck and I need your help :). My ...
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### How does hash function in Elgamal signature scheme prevent existential forgery attack?

I have heard that hashing the message M prevents an existential forgery attack. I was wondering how.
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### Real life systems that use concepts of crypto computing [on hold]

Are there any working cloud/internet solutions/products that operates on encrypted data such as systems using homomorphic encryption, secure multiparty computation, electronic voting, private ...
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### Hash collision using the leading 40-bits of SHA-1

I am trying to implement Floyd's cycle finding algorithm for finding a leading 40-bit hash collision in the SHA-1 algorithm. However, my code will not find a repetition even with 800,000,000 hashes. ...
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### Are all binary-additive stream ciphers reciprocal?

I'm writing a thesis focused on Maurer's provably-secure stream cipher. Long story short, this cipher works by expanding a short key into a long keystream and then XORring this keystream with the ...
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### What is the difference between order of base point and curve order in EC?

When I was read about the elliptic curve cryptography I found some definition about domain parameter of elliptic curve like the follow. But I did not understand something $p$: prime number. $a, b$: ...