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How to implement shamir's secret sharing algorithm using AES_ENCYRPT

I am using MySQL AES_ENCRYTP() and AES_DECRYPT() to store sensitive details in a database, and currently storing the key in a php file outside of the web root with read access only. The key file looks ...
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Is leaking the hash of your encryption key a security risk?

I've been trying to design a simple archive format, that allows me to just bundle a bunch of encrypted files together. The idea, I currently have is to embed not the encryption key but a truncated ...
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Where do I securely store application-specific symmetric key?

I am writing an application App1. This application uses SQLite database and I plan to encrypt it using AES256. For symmetric encryption I need a key, which I need to store somewhere. From a similar ...
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Key distribution advice

I have been thinking for days about that problem! The application is based on a student system management. I am implementing database encryption on a column level and The encryption occurs at the ...
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Password protection of encryption and signature keys

I would like to store encrypted backup of text files on my computer. I'm developing a python script using Pycrypto to achieve that, based on this code to use the library. (current code) The basic ...
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AES using derived keys / IVs. Does it introduce a weakness?

I'm looking for an efficient way to encrypt multiple fields in a database with AES using a single global key, used throughout a large web application. Obviously in order to re-use this key, a unique ...
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Asymmetric crypto: Decrypt own messages without having private key

I have built a messages system for my website. Users can send the admin messages which are stored in the DB after being AES-encrypted. I think that using asymmetric crypto (RSA through openssl) ...
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Hybrid key management doing it wrong?

I'm currently working on a project that needs be as secure as possible key-management. My experience with encryption, decryption and key-management are none whatsoever so i did some research on the ...