User thesquaregroot

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Why do some people believe that humans are "bad at" generating random numbers/characters like this?

answered Feb 4, 2021 at 4:15

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Why does SSH authentication protocol send a challenge message instead of using digital signature to verify client

answered Dec 26, 2019 at 19:17

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Encryption and decryption with Diffie-Hellman

answered Jun 8, 2020 at 15:01

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What is the sponge construction in simple terms?

answered Aug 6, 2020 at 14:19

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Which attacks are prevented by the different initial hash values for SHA-2 with truncated output?

answered Jul 20, 2018 at 13:57

6 votes

How to calculate the odds of finding "20" at least three times in a sha256 string?

answered Sep 22, 2020 at 0:47

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Why would you want to keep the Initialization Vectors Public?

answered Sep 30, 2020 at 18:23

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How exactly is signature verification done in SSH v2 authentication?

answered Jul 15, 2020 at 21:51

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Is it fair to say that MACs use a signing algorithm?

answered Jul 2, 2020 at 12:01

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Using nested signatures to trust public key of inner signatures

answered Jul 20, 2018 at 5:43

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Keyed reversible hash function?

answered Apr 3, 2018 at 14:11

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What are the randomness requirements for inputs to PBKDF2?

answered Jul 11, 2020 at 12:44

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Is it safe to store mnemonic seed in the email if I change random 2 words?

answered Jul 11, 2020 at 17:03

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Using xor encryption in the following use case

answered Jul 24, 2020 at 17:14

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What does TLS 1.2 mean by SHA functions?

answered May 8, 2021 at 18:11

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Why does Encrypt-Then-Sign not yield a CCA-secure public-key encryption scheme?

answered Jun 19, 2020 at 15:15

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Can the confusion/diffusion of a hash algorithm be quantified?

answered Dec 26, 2019 at 23:06

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Converting RSA.pub keys to word list

answered Jun 4, 2020 at 21:42

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Why do some people believe that humans are "bad at" generating random numbers/characters like this?

Why does SSH authentication protocol send a challenge message instead of using digital signature to verify client

Encryption and decryption with Diffie-Hellman

What is the sponge construction in simple terms?

Which attacks are prevented by the different initial hash values for SHA-2 with truncated output?

How to calculate the odds of finding "20" at least three times in a sha256 string?

Why would you want to keep the Initialization Vectors Public?

How exactly is signature verification done in SSH v2 authentication?

Is it fair to say that MACs use a signing algorithm?

Using nested signatures to trust public key of inner signatures

Keyed reversible hash function?

What are the randomness requirements for inputs to PBKDF2?

Is it safe to store mnemonic seed in the email if I change random 2 words?

Using xor encryption in the following use case

What does TLS 1.2 mean by SHA functions?

Why does Encrypt-Then-Sign not yield a CCA-secure public-key encryption scheme?

Can the confusion/diffusion of a hash algorithm be quantified?

Converting RSA.pub keys to word list