41 questions linked to/from Easy explanation of "IND-" security notions?
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### ECDH, x25519 and limitations for securing client-certificates on the server

g'day Crypto.SE I'm working on a practical application of sharing a static key to better-identify a user, between the recipient (server) and the initiator (client ie. user's machine). My core ...
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### Why can´t an attacker find the key if he has the plain text, the IV and the ciphertext? [duplicate]

I am reading a book about web security and they are now talking about AES CBC. After reading the chapter I was wondering, can an attacker compute my secret key if he has access to the IV, the plain ...
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### Padding on RSA signature and RSA encryption

Why use a random padding on RSA encryption and not on RSA signature?
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### Is there any theory to measures and determine the strength of an encryption protocol?

To determine the strength of an encryption protocol, there are elements like key size, Strength of an algorithm, Performance of an algorithm or etc, I have studied these topics but I could not find ...
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### When do I need to use hybrid cryptography?

I need to provide confidentiality for a protocol. The protocol message size is between 100 bytes to 500 bytes. Do I need to use asymmetric encryption or hybrid cryptography?
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### Is this a good communication scheme?

I'm writing a wrapper for a chat program to allow for end-to-end encryption. I'm using Python and PyCrypto to accomplish this. I'd like to use a well known library to do this, but to my knowledge, ...
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### Asymmetric encryption property required in an authentication protocol

We want to choose an asymmetric encryption scheme for use as follows: A device holds its private key, with the corresponding public key known and trusted by all. The device also holds a small $b$-bit ...
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### What do you mean by Ciphertext indistinguishability [duplicate]

Wiki definition : A cryptosystem is considered secure in terms of indistinguishability if no adversary, given an encryption of a message randomly chosen from a two-element message space ...