Questions tagged [symmetric]
Symmetric cryptosystems assume two communicating entities share a pre-established secret key.
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Most simple transport encryption for link-constrained environments
What is the most simple, but yet well-known "protocol" to protect a unidirectional channel over air?
Requirements
The protocol should provide common properties like privacy, integrity and ...
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Key Encryption: Does it need to be Authenticated?
Alice wants to store files $m_i$ on Bob's untrusted cloud storage platform, with the additional restriction that she can only store one master key $k$ herself.
She encrypts the files with keys $k_i$ ...
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Password Manager: Sending stored passwords in API response [closed]
I am building a password manager with client-server architecture. The server will host REST APIs to manage passwords and the client (Web or Mobile) will use these APIs.
The server will store passwords ...
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Is AES-GCM safe if same key is used for both uplink and downlink, assuming last IV bit tells the direction
I have designed a cryptographical protocol which uses AES-GCM with a single key.
I have gone to great lengths to ensure the same initialization vector is never reused. The first bits of the ...
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Is a salt necessary when using a key and an intialization vector during encryption?
I use OpenSSL to encrypt passwords. For that the parameters - $S
$ salt, $K$ key, $IV$ initialization vector are used.
Although the command produces the results, I am not sure if the salt is really ...
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Exploring Quantum Attacks in Q1 Model on Symmetric Primitives with Better than Quadratic Speedup
I'm exploring quantum attacks (in the Q1 model) on symmetric structures, including hash functions, block ciphers, modes of operation and stream ciphers with time complexity beyond quadratic speedup.
I'...
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AES-CTR Mode, Predictability of Nonce
I'm trying to rebuild AES-CTR mode and have some questions concerning the generation of the nounce.
I've comonly seen the nonce be distributed like this $Nonce_{128\,bits} = IV_{64\,bits} \mathbin\...
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Shared Key message-encryption multiple receiver communication
Say there are 5 parties. 1 is the sender, and 4 are the receivers.
The sender has a unique shared key with each receiver.
k1 - between sender and receiver1
k2 - between sender and receiver2
k3 - ...
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Symmetric Encryption in the P=NP world [duplicate]
I expected to find answers along the lines of quantum-computing insight into attacking AES; however, answers on this question aren't applicable because "Quantum computers give a quadratic speedup ...
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Is the CFB mode of Encryption related-key secure
I am going through the paper https://www.iacr.org/archive/fse2013/84240283/84240283.pdf where the related key security of CBC mode of encryption is well analyzed. I am concerned about whether the CFB ...
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In Kerberos, is the "Authentication Server" the only "Trusted Third Party"? Or is "Ticket Granting Server" also a "Trusted Third Party"? [closed]
I know that AS (Authentication Server) is a TTP (Trusted Third Party) because it generates keys for two entities (for the client and the TGS).
But what about TGS (Ticket Granting Server)? It also ...
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Asymmetric encryption of the AES key made available along with the ciphertext
I know there are much more sophisticated encryption schemes than this one that achieve the same goal but I would like to understand any weaknesses in this basic, and probably typical, process:
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Is there any notion of key-recovery attacks security (perhaphs using games) that is equivalent to IND-CPA?
I am talking about Symmetric Cryptography only in the following.
We know that Semantic Security (in the presence of eavesdropper) implies security against message recovery (in the presence of ...
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Why can a symmetric encryption algorithm be considered a pseudo-random number generation algorithm?
I have a question from my teacher: "Why can a symmetric encryption algorithm be considered a pseudo-random number generation algorithm?
Can anyone explain it to me?
And sorry if my english is not ...
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Is AES-CTR mode with predictable IV vulnerable to CPA attacks?
I'm just confused about this topic problem.
I know that the CBC mode will be vulnerable to CPA attacks if the IV is predictable, but what about the CTR mode?
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