25 questions linked to/from Why shouldn't I use ECB encryption?
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### Is ECB mode safe to use with RSA encryption? [duplicate]

Firstly, bear with me, I'm relatively new to cryptography. In a recent static analysis scan of our application, one of the findings complained that we are using ECB: A mode of operation of a block ...
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### Key recovery when AES ECB is used for short but repeated messages

My question is based on the specification of the protocol LoRaWAN and especially on the part 6.2.5 Join-accept message. It is said that the join-accept message is encrypted using AES ECB. This is (...
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### How does blocksize affect security?

I have recently read about how blockciphers and how stream ciphers work, and although I think I finally got everything right, I'm still wondering how increasing blocksize increases security.
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### AES encryption without salt and IV

I need to encrypt blocks of 16KiB with AES256. I have only one requirement to satisfy - If one day a hacker gets the data without the keys, he will not be able to decipher the data. According to the ...
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### Decrypting ciphertext that is missing a block

In the AES encryption, suppose that the key is known. The ciphertext is also known except for a block of the same size as the key. For example, the adversary knows $k, c_0, c_1, \dots, c_{n - 1}$; ...
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### Brute force, get AES keys by multiple plain-texts with their cipher-texts

I know that the encryption is AES, and I have multiple plain-texts with their cipher-texts, I don't know the encryption mode (ECB, CFB, etc ...) actually, but I know that the keys and the IV Key (if ...
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### How can I use a secret sharing scheme when the secret is not a number but a statement?

I want to use a secret sharing scheme, where every player $i\in N$ has to share a pair of secrets $(l_i,\nu_{l_i})$, where $l_i$ is a unique code (positive integer) for every player, but $\nu_{l_i}$ ...
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### Why is padding used in CBC mode?

I am newbie to CBC crypto: When I try decrypt the cipher text to recover the plain text, things are not going smoothly as I face some issues in the decryption process with padding and not obtaining ...
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### Finding key of AES in ECB mode

How many plaintext-ciphertext pairs would be needed to guess with probability, say $p=0.5$, the key $k$ of AES under ECB mode? Most of the articles that I found tried attacks on single plaintext-...
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### Encrypting decimal values with AES

I have a column in a database table called "Amount" that will store decimal values encrypted with AES. It's highly likely that the same amount will exist in multiple rows in the table and be encrypted ...
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I have a cryptosystem that I'm using for secure chat. It is using AES 256 (with RSA 2048 for key exchange). Would a predictable, and repetitively sent ciphertext plaintext compromise the ...
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### AES-encrypted 128-bit null block: lookup table?

Let's say a 1MB file has many many consecutive null-bytes 128-bit blocks. Then, as AES works with blocks, the encrypted file will also have recurrent 128-bit-long patterns of ...
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### Why using AES in ECB (Electronic Code Book) mode a bad idea? [duplicate]

Why using AES in ECB (Electronic Code Book) mode a bad idea? is CTR mode better? Given only these two can be used for parallelization.
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### Multiple AES/ECB encryptions of different data with same key all end with same pattern

We have used "AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding" with a 256 bit key. We encrypt different streams of data (blockwise) with the same key. Each encrypted stream ends with same pattern. What is the reason for this?
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