Thomas Pornin

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What is the "Random Oracle Model" and why is it controversial?

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

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Should we MAC-then-encrypt or encrypt-then-MAC?

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How much would it cost in U.S. dollars to brute-force a 256-bit key in a year?

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Can you explain Bleichenbacher's CCA attack on PKCS#1 v1.5?

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Should we MAC-then-encrypt or encrypt-then-MAC?

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How robust is discrete logarithm in $GF(2^n)$?

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Should we MAC-then-encrypt or encrypt-then-MAC?

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What does the special form of the base point of secp256k1 allow?

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

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do koblitz curves over $\mathbb{F}_{P}$ as generalized in SEC2 always have $a$ as 0?

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