14,572 reputation
1527
bio website
location
age
visits member for 1 year, 9 months
seen 3 hours ago
stats profile views 105

2d
answered How does OAEP improve the security of RSA?
May
16
comment Generating IV in TLS 1.2
@D.W.: why, yes, I do have a proof of security: see eprint.iacr.org/2008/121.pdf ; see the part where they show an encrypted counter for a CBC mode IV is secure
May
15
comment Generating IV in TLS 1.2
@user1966074: The decryptor side does the standard CBC-mode decryption, which is (for TLS) precisely as you stated.
May
15
reviewed Approve suggested edit on Partial collisions for md5
May
15
answered Generating IV in TLS 1.2
May
14
comment Encrypting a broadcast channel
What's the security goal behind having multiple keys? So that we can encrypt data that can be decrypted by a specific subset of the subscribers (e.g. Alice can decrypt it, but Bob can't, even though both Alice and Bob are both subscribers)? Alternatively, is it so that you can do traitor-tracing (that is, if someone leaks his key, we can figure out who that is)?
May
14
reviewed Approve suggested edit on Why is H(k||x) not a secure MAC construction?
May
9
comment Increased CRC collision probability when adding bits to input message
@jmbeck: hmmmm, would it be possible to encode the version bits in the message length? That is, version 1 messages are a specific length (which is what you're currently doing now), version 2 messages are longer (and have an explicit version field, a longer check value, etc). I don't know if that's possible; I thought it may be worth considering.
May
9
awarded  Enlightened
May
9
awarded  Nice Answer
May
8
answered Increased CRC collision probability when adding bits to input message
May
7
answered Weak One Way Function
May
7
reviewed Edit suggested edit on RSA Encryption Sckeme
May
7
revised RSA Encryption Sckeme
fixed spelling and grammar
May
6
comment What is a CBC Mac Scheme? How does knowing one block release other?
possible duplicate of CBC-MAC , fixed length, all blocks returned
May
6
comment What should be the size of a Diffie-Hellman private key?
@divbyzero: except for where I endorsed the python implementation (which used a 1024-bit modulus), I don't see where I (even implicitly) mentioned modulus size at all in the above answers. I may have mentioned the advise to use at least 1024 bits in answers to other questions.
May
5
comment What should be the size of a Diffie-Hellman private key?
@divbyzero: actually, I suggested a 256 bit secret exponent ($A \ge 2^{256}$), not 128 bit.
May
5
reviewed Approve suggested edit on How can rainbow tables be used for a dictionary attack?
May
4
answered How to derive two keys from one password
May
2
reviewed Approve suggested edit on Decrypt digital signature using RSA public key with openssl