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What is the difference between CBC and GCM mode?

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How does RSA signature verification work?

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How does one attack a two-time pad (i.e. one time pad with key reuse)?

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Have any cryptographic breaks been executed in the real world since World War II?

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Signatures: RSA compared to ECDSA

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Is using the same IV in AES similar to not using an IV in the first place?

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HMAC vs ECDSA for JWT

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HMAC-SHA1 vs HMAC-SHA256

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How does recovering the public key from an ECDSA signature work?

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Why do we use encrypt-decrypt-encrypt (EDE) in 3DES, rather than encrypting three times?

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In RSA, why is it important to choose e so that it is coprime to φ(n)?

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Applicability of IBM's projected 50-qubit quantum computer Q to cryptanalysis?

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2way cryptography

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How to solve MixColumns

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Why must IV/key-pairs not be reused in CTR mode?

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How does IBM's 53-bit quantum computer compare to classical ones for cryptanalytic tasks?

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Are longer passwords really safer against brute force attacks?

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Chinese Remainder Theorem and RSA

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How does encryption work in elliptic curve cryptography?

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Can a computationally unbounded adversary break any public-key encryption scheme?

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(Why) should I avoid using a randomized IV for CTR mode?

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NIST Diffie-Hellman prime: how was it picked? Where did it come from?

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Does Curve25519 only provide 112 bit security?

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Why use an Initialization Vector (IV)?

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Why is elliptic curve cryptography not widely used, compared to RSA?

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What was NIST’s reason to switch naming from MD… (Message Digest) to SHA… (Secure Hashing Algorithm)?

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Why was the term "discrete" used in discrete logarithm?

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RSA: What would happen if you chose n to be a prime?

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Why is SSL on top of TCP?

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Is (AES-)GCM parallelizable?

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