Thomas Pornin

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Cryptographer, programmer in several languages (C, Java, several assemblies, Pascal, Forth...). I also have a life.


243 Answers

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7
Secp256k1 test examples
sep 25 '11 at 23:41
7
Understanding CRC
sep 16 '11 at 19:06
7
Why use an Initialization Vector (IV)?
sep 20 '11 at 17:07
7
Is the number of creatable torrents limited?
aug 16 '11 at 16:41
7
Why isn't the alternating step generator used more often?
aug 7 '11 at 19:40
7
Security of N bit HMAC
jul 29 '11 at 12:41
7
What exactly is the impact of the hidden subgroup problem on cryptography?
jul 26 '11 at 20:16
7
UMAC: to what extent is it in use today?
jul 25 '11 at 21:35
7
Should I use ECB or CBC encryption mode for my block cipher?
jul 21 '11 at 13:57
7
Asymmetric cryptographic algorithms that are not based on integer factorization and discrete logarithm
jul 19 '11 at 17:01
7
Reduction from signatures to encryption?
jul 17 '11 at 20:26
7
Necessity of Randomness of Salts?
jul 12 '11 at 21:08
6
Turning a cipher into a hashing function
feb 25 at 13:44
6
How to bring little changes in DES algorithm
feb 9 at 11:02
6
Is it possible to break a hash-based block cipher?
jan 10 at 18:05
6
Constructing RSA private key, given public key
nov 29 at 2:09
6
Can I use my random IV (for AES) as a salt for PBKDF2?
nov 20 at 17:17
6
Complexity of arithmetic in a finite field?
mar 10 '12 at 19:33
6
Is it possible to distinguish a securely-encrypted ciphertext from random noise?
jan 12 '12 at 14:08
6
Feedback on rolling my own entropy gatherer
jan 10 '12 at 21:27
6
Message space in security definitions
nov 22 '11 at 12:12
6
Is it reasonable to assure that p-1 and q-1 aren't smooth?
nov 9 '11 at 13:14
6
How does one measure the decrease in security, if any, of RC4 when mapping to a specific range of values?
nov 3 '11 at 23:17
6
How can rainbow tables be used for a dictionary attack?
oct 25 '11 at 22:28
6
Key Length & Hashing
oct 13 '11 at 14:17
6
RIPEMD versus SHA-x, what are the main pros and cons?
oct 12 '11 at 16:59
6
How do other, non-RSA algorithms, compare to the PKCS #1 standard?
oct 10 '11 at 14:19
6
How to calculate the time it'll take to crack RSA or DH?
oct 6 '11 at 13:35
6
How does one scale encryption strength upwards from 256-bit?
sep 30 '11 at 12:15
6
Can ECDSA signatures be safely made “deterministic”?
sep 29 '11 at 12:36
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