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What is the difference between CBC and GCM mode?
Apr 9, 2012
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How does RSA signature verification work?
Aug 21, 2013
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How does one attack a two-time pad (i.e. one time pad with key reuse)?
Apr 1, 2012
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Have any cryptographic breaks been executed in the real world since World War II?
Feb 22, 2022
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Signatures: RSA compared to ECDSA
Jul 12, 2012
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Is using the same IV in AES similar to not using an IV in the first place?
Mar 20, 2018
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HMAC vs ECDSA for JWT
Nov 18, 2015
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How does recovering the public key from an ECDSA signature work?
Jul 12, 2014
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HMAC-SHA1 vs HMAC-SHA256
Apr 4, 2014
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Why do we use encrypt-decrypt-encrypt (EDE) in 3DES, rather than encrypting three times?
Mar 9, 2012
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Why didn't Microsoft use a well-known encryption algorithm like RSA for telephone activation?
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Integer factorization with additional knowledge of $p \oplus q$
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Are there CPUs that perform this possible L1 cache write optimization?
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How to handle improper key sizes (AES encryption)
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Does knowing half private key provide any useful information?