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Iterated AES encryption under a fixed key

Is it right that repeated AES encryption under the same key will eventually lead back to the original plaintext? The reasoning is that AES acts like a reversible permutation of the blocks, the ...
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Is there a method to encrypt relations in between values of a cyclic value set and generate values out of this set with pseudo RNG? (all at user PC)

Is there a pseudo RNG and function $f$ with 1.) The RNG produces a value $v_0$ out of $N$ different values (set $S$). 2.) Independent of the RNG the function $f$ generates $v_{i+1}=f(v_i)$ ...
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Sponge with PRF instead of PRP

In most uses of Sponge mode of operations such as SHA3 and many of the round-2 candidates in the NIST lightweight cryptography project, the underlaying primitive is a cryptographic permutation - that ...
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memory-hard KDF that's just a giant permutation?

Why aren't there memory-hard KDF functions that simply build a 1GB permutation and permute it? Then hash the 1GB result. For example, use a hash function (unfixed output mode) on the key+salt and use ...
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How to check whether the permutation is random or not

Imagine that my friend gives me the permutation $\pi$. He pretends that the permutation was generated completely random. I'm suspicious and worried, because the permutation (for instance) looks like: ...
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Is there a 'chain-function' which allows computing the value for the index which is next, previous, +/- some constants but has no shortcut for other?

Looking for an algorithm which has a cyclic 'chain'-function which only allows the computation of next, previous element and in addition to that also a shift by a small amount of constants. Example 1 ...
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Question about the definition of Associative Pseudorandom Permutation [closed]

In question about associative pseudo-random permutation the definition uses: $f(k_1, f(k_2, m)) = f(f(k_1, k_2), m)$ What is defined by that? No luck with google so far. As far as I know a ...
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What is the intuition behind the strength of unstructured symmetric cryptography?

Consider a single round of a cryptographic permutation, what is so special about it that lacking some bits of information that either get mixed into it as a subkey or omitted at the end (sponge ...
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How are the four 8-bit permutation tables of Present cipher calculated?

the fast implementation of present cipher for 8-bit register uses four 8-bit lookups tables for permutation. Table 3 & 2 are : ...
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Are any block ciphers provably free of equivalent keys?

There are $2^n!$ possible permutations of an $n$-bit block cipher $E_k:\{0,1\}^n \rightarrow \{0,1\}^n$, and any given key $k$ selects one of these permutations at random. Define equivalent keys as a ...
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How strong is XooDoo vs AES?

What is Gimli, and how does XooDoo compare to symmetric ciphers such as AES or ChaCha? I am looking at this library, called charm. Interesting paper here. I also ...
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From the product of two permutation matrices raised to the same power, is it easy to find the power?

Let $A$ and $B$ be two public permutation matrices. If $r$ is a secret power of large number, can we easily find $r$ from $A^rB^r$?
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Is Permutation conjugate problem hard?

Let $x$,$y$,$z$ be permutations. Then public key is $z=xyx^{−1}$ and $y$. Is permutation conjugate search problem easy? if yes, how to find $x$ from $z$ and $y$? Let be a is Alice's secret key as ...
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Examples of extended trapdoor permutations

I am interested in Extended Trapdoor Permutations (ETP). An Extended Trapdoor Permutation (ETP) is a collection of permutations $\{f_{\alpha}\}_{\alpha}$ along with four algorithms $I$ (index), $S$ (...
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Randomness Testing

Let say I have three sequences: S1 = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10} S2 = {3,7,1,9,4,10,5,8,6,2} S3 = {8,3,10,2,6,7,1,5,9,4} i.e. S2 and S3 are just the permutations of S1. Is there any method to check how ...
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What can be said about the self-power map on groups based on DLP?

Introduction I've been playing with group representation theory some time, concretely representing groups as permutation groups (Cayley's theorem), where the group $G$ has an embedding into the ...
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modified substitution permutation networks

I have a model of substitution permutation networks, modified as follows: instead of iterating $n$ times a round(each of which is composed of the key mixing phase, substitution S-BOX) and ...
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AES: Why ShiftRows() before MixColumns()? [duplicate]

In above picture you can see a AES state array over 2 rounds through the S- and P-Boxes of AES. It's taken from here and intends to show how 2 rounds of transformation are necessary to achieve full ...
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Is a random permutation “hiding”?

Let's say I tell you $G: \mathbb{F} \rightarrow \mathbb{F}$ is a random permutation (some finite field). Does that mean: $G$ is one-way, so that if I give you $G(x)$, it is infeasible to determine ...
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Proving at most one affine permutation mapping $x$ to $u$ and $y$ to $v$ with $x,y \in \mathbb{Z}_n$ and $\gcd(x−y,n) = 1$

Suppose that $x,y \in \mathbb{Z}_n$ with $\gcd(x−y,n) = 1$. Prove that for any $u,v \in \mathbb{Z}_n$ there is at most one affine permutation mapping $x$ to $u$ and $y$ to $v$.
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Does there exist trapdoor permutation from lattices?

It seems that the lattice functions are either surjective (SIS) or injective (LWE), due to the error that is basically intended to destroy the structure and provide security. I was wondering whether ...
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Key, plaintext block and ciphertext block permutations question

Question: If a cipher’s key size is $k$ bits and its block size is $b$ bits, how many possible keys are there, how many possible plaintext blocks are there, and how many possible ciphertext blocks are ...
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Locally computable random permutation

Let $A$ be a set of size $n$. Given a random seed $s$, I am looking to build a pseudo-random random permutation $\pi_s: A \rightarrow A$ such that $\pi_s(a)$ is fast to compute for every $a \in A$. By ...
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What's the difference between confusion/diffusion and mode of operation?

I understand the concepts of confusion (substitution) and diffusion (permutation). My understanding of what a mode is that it's an algorithm that lets us encrypt arbitrary message size. i.e. AES is ...
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Permutation and modes of operation

I'm reading the book "Serious Cryptography A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption" from Jean-Philippe Aumasson, and in the first chapter, it is written this : We can try to abstract out the ...
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For a hash over a finite space without size reduction, is a public permutation sufficient?

Suppose the application is a Lamport signature scheme. Is the following a secure hash $\{0,1\}^n \rightarrow \{0,1\}^n$? $$ H(x) = x \oplus P(x) $$ where $P$ is a public permutation that permutes an ...
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Mixing x into permutation through XOR vs. modular addition

Block ciphers mix key material into the permutation through XOR. Also do pre and post whitening this way. Chacha/Salsa finishes by 32-bit modular adding key and iv material (among other bits but ...
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Is this a PRP? How can I create a distinguisher to show it isn't?

Consider the keyed permutation $F_k : \{0,1\}^2 \to \{0,1\}^2$ with two-bit keys defined as $F_k(x) = k\oplus x$. Is this F a PRP? How can I create a distinguisher D and calculate the difference ...
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Permutation for which an inverse is a hard problem

Is it possible to construct (even if we don't know how) a permutation for which an inverse must exist but is difficult to find (brute force required)? The one way permutation contains no hidden ...
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What is the time complexity of the basic components of a symmetric cipher?

I have a very basic knowledge on time complexity and even less on programming, so please bear with me. I am interested to know the time complexity in big-O notation of some of the basic operations in ...
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Operation Table for Permutation Group

I cannot seem to figure out how the operation table for this permutation is formed. Is it multiplying each index and doing modulus? I can't seem to figure out. This is a Table 4.2 found in "...
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permutation cipher definition unclear

I have an assignment to decode a permutation cipher based on a key. But on the internet I found only ONE website talking about it. Things are not very clear. I understand that I have to reorder the ...
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Why do block ciphers use key schedules instead of round constants? (Even-Mansour)

Let's take AES as an example. What would be wrong with just having a 256 bit key that you XOR into your input and then XOR into your output? No key expansion at all. I believe it's even known as the ...
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Can both substitution and transposition ciphers be thought of as permutations?

I came across this problem to 'explain why both substitution and transposition ciphers can be thought of as permutations' and I cannot come up with an explanation to how substitution ciphers can be ...
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Can you rely on the permutation of a ciphertext for secrecy?

Say you have a message and you run it through an all-or-nothing transform. A transform that requires every single block in the correct order in order to recover any data. Each block is ...
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Composition of weak one way function is not a strong one way function

Given $f(x)$, a weak one-way permutation, how to prove that $f^T(x)$ is not a strong one-way function? Here $f^T$ denotes $T$ times self composition of $f$ and $T$ is a polynomial in input length.
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DES: how does Richard Outerbridge's Initial Permutation operate?

I know how initial permutation works, but I've never heard of this part. People say it's Richard Outerbridge's initial permutation and that it's faster than usual IP (initial permutation) and simple. ...
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Using multiple permutations to strengthen the security of a cipher

In one book it says a set of permutations with the composition operation is a group. This implies that using two permutations one after another cannot strengthen the security of a cipher, ...
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Is it possible to permute a binary vector obliviously?

Lets say A has a binary vector of length n, B has a permutation matrix of size n. Is there a way for B to permute A's vector so that A only learns about the result of permutation and B does not learn ...
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A strange phenomenon of the composition of permutations of order 2

Suppose that $f,g,h:X\rightarrow X$ are permutations such that $f^{2}=g^{2}=\textrm{Id}_{X}$ (i.e. $f,g$ have order 2). Let $F=f\circ g$. Let $D_{f,g}$ be the distribution that takes the value $n$ ...
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What are the subsequent inputs to the DES key schedule after round 1?

I've just been studying the DES crypto algorithm as presented by Christof Paar in his book entitled, Understanding Cryptography as well as his lecture. There is a diagram on page 68 of the text where ...
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How does Permutation and Substitution work?

I'm a little confused on how permutation and substitution works, I've been reading about S-DES and how it goes through P-Boxes and S-Boxes but what goes on inside P or S in the algorithm? Are these p ...
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Problem with a reduction using Hybrid Argument

I have an issue with this proof. We define two games: $$H'(\lambda):$$ 1) Pick $R \in \mathcal{R}(n,l)$ (the space of truly random functions from $\{0,1\}^n$ to $\{0,1\}^l$ 2) we define $\mathit{Enc}...
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Practical OWP of the set of $k$-bit bitstrings for low $k$

Down to what $k$ and how can we devise a practical, public, efficiently computable One Way Permutation $P$ of the set $\{0,1\}^k$ of $k$-bit bitstrings, if possible without involving a trusted party ...
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Proving RSA is a permutation

I am trying to prove that RSA is a permutation. All I can find is places where it is stated that it is a permutation because the function is bijective. I know that it is, but would like to see a ...
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A Construction of a Cipher from a Single Pseudorandom Permutation

A paper from 1997 A construction of a cipher from a single pseudorandom permutation proposes a cipher in which The message block is XORed with K1 before applying F [a single random permutation], and ...
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Method for creating any involutive permutation

The Fisher-Yates shuffle can produce any permutation of a set of $n$ elements. Is there anything that can do the same for creating an involutive permutation of $n$ elements where $n$ is an even number?...
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Creating single-cycle permutations

There was this one time I came up with a small permutation that had a block size of 16 bits. This was small enough to compute every mapping. I then iterated the mapping starting with zero to see how ...
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If PRESENT had different permutations s would that protect it against Statistical Saturation Attack?

The block cipher PRESENT is vulnerable to the Statistical Saturation Attack for up to 15 rounds (PDF) and a simple example is here. So my questions are, if some (or all) of the permutations were ...
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What affect does the permutation layer have on the avalanche effect?

If the permutation is not well thought out, how will this effect the cipher's avalanche effect. For example, if the permutation in PRESENT was in some way different (just made up without any thought) ...

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