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### Differences between industrial and military cryptography

Industrial and military cryptography should follow the same basic rules, but what does make them different is: Higher key length, protocols unknown to the civilian world, and perhaps unique methods ...
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### How to calculate a private key from public key on elliptic curve? [duplicate]

Provided, that you have to multiply a well known G by the private key to obtain the public key, why not keep adding G to itself until you reach the public key. The private key should be the number of ...
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### Maximum security strength in bits of ISAAC cipher?

Wikipedia claims key length can be very big in this cipher, so I assume it can offer a million bits of security provided entropy of key is the same? Of course I can SHA-256 hash the key to allow any ...
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### Why can't we give block ciphers larger keys?

I have limited math's knowledge so sorry if this question sounds stupid. I saw many people complaining about AES, Twofish and Serpent that these ciphers all could be crackable in the near future and ...
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### Does SHA-1024 hash exist?

Does SHA-1024 cryptographic hash function exist similarly to SHA-512? If not, what's the reason for that? Links: SHA-2 at Wikipedia SHA-3 at Wikipedia
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### Encryption using matrix transformations

I have been thinking lately about a block cipher which takes a block of bits and arranges them in a square matrix. Then defining transforms on submatrices of the square matrix to scramble the bits. ...
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### Why is AES resistant to known-plaintext attacks?

At least it's my understanding that AES isn't affected by known-plaintext. Is it immune to such an attack, or just resistant? Does this vary for chosen-plaintext?
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### Does a thermodynamic limit on key search apply to quantum computers?

There is (or at least was) a thermodynamic reasoning that any form of brute force key search would require an energy at least $k\,T$ per key tested, where $k$ is Boltzman's constant and $T$ the device'...
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### Is this test result sufficient to steer clear from this RNG for cryptographic applications?

I'm not really interested in this PRNG. I'm more interested in understanding what it takes to fail the security threshold for cryptographic applications. I'm taking the C PRNG as an example. ...
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### What is the most secure ECC Curve?

I have for a while used Koblitz curve (sect571k1), in ECDH and ECDSA. But I have started wonder if it is the most secure. I prefer security over efficiency. So the curve doesn't have to be the most ...
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### Calculate all possible keys for AES 128 encryption to exploit hardware encryption

Some background: I am using the MicroChip ATAES132a for hardware encryption/decryption. The ATAES132a is very configurable and can be misconfigured in such a way that the encryption/decryption will be ...
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### 1 Billion Bit Encryption?

So, browsing through YouTube, I stumbled on this video interview of John Draper (Captain Crunch), one of the first "hackers". He talks for about 3 minutes (until 27:48) about his home rolled ...
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### Is the cipher “Kalyna” with a 512-bit key length more secure AES with a 256-bit key?

Recently I have found out that Ukraine has its own symmetric encryption algorithm "Kalyna". Developers of this algorithm said that their algorithm is more secure than AES because of longer key length ...