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Recommended authenticated stream cipher for minimum overhead?

I'm running my TCP/IP protocol secured by encrypting each packet with AES128/CBC, bundling a SHA256 HMAC over that packet. This causes quite a bit of space overhead for small packets, so at first I ...
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AES in CTR mode with same random IV to create same ciphertext

I am currently working on a little project. I am trying to generate an AES key with that I would like to encrypt a private RSA key. I have to do it this way. However, I do not want to save the AES ...
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Known plaintext; What cipher is being used here? [closed]

plaintext: CANDY VERY CRANBERRY ciphertext: TXOtWjYhVk 8&O$4AmSA plaintext: http ciphertext: cZf. plaintext: http ciphertext: r5Hz This is definitely somehow decodable from ...
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Why not use larger cipher keys?

RSA Security commonly uses keys of sizes 1024-bit, 2048-bit or even 3072-bit. And most Symmetric algorithms only between 112-bit and 256-bit. I do realize that the current keys are secure enough for ...
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Block cipher Implementation in C++

I'm writing an implementation of a block cipher in C++. I would like to study differential cryptanalysis of the cipher, so I'm generating random plaintexts and keys and then encrypt them. Which is ...