Stephen Touset

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33 Posts

Jun 6	answered	IV Security Clarification
May 14	answered	Using an MD5 hash as a password
May 9	answered	Does knowledge of original file size provide a cryptographic weakness?
Apr 25	answered	Password verification
Apr 24	answered	Tamper-proofing log files
Apr 8	answered	Does the IV need to be known by AES (CBC mode)?
Apr 5	answered	Case insensitive verification of HMAC / Base64 signature
Apr 2	answered	Is there a practical security difference between XXX-bit encryption?
Mar 28	answered	It is reasonably safe to leave a SSH private key with a 30+ character passphrase public?
Mar 24	answered	Where can I begin to study the math behind modern cryptography?
Mar 17	answered	How to use GCM mode and associated-data properly
Mar 1	answered	Is it safe for the ChaCha8 nonce to be deterministic?
Feb 26	answered	What is the difference between a HMAC and a hash of data?
Feb 20	answered	Validating successful decryption in AES
Feb 4	answered	Why does the recommended key size between symmetric and assymetric encryption differ greatly?
Jan 25	answered	Theoretical pi-based stream cipher
Jan 23	answered	Hashing a password with the password?
Jan 23	answered	Understanding padding oracles - is an attack plausible in my scenario?
Jan 22	answered	Is Encrypt+HMAC stronger than AEAD?
Jan 22	asked	Encrypting or HMACing password digests