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MPPE-Send and Receive key derivation from MS-CHAPv2

I am trying to get the MS-MPPE-Send-key and MS-MPPE-Recv-key from the MS-CHAPv2 challenge material. I am able to follow the RFCs 2548 3078 and 3079 to the step of getting the GetNewKeyFromSHA() it is ...
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Is it safe to have the salt equal to IV?

If I'm using AES-256 CBC to encrypt, getting the 32 byte key using multiple iterations of the PBKDF2 function with a 16 byte salt, is it safe for me to let IV be equal to the salt? (Edit: The salt is ...
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Is a random keyfile more secure than a derived key?

I'm devising an encryption layer for some proprietary cloud storage API. Basically this should act as a transparent adapter that encrypts whole binary blobs (files) on upload and decrypts them on ...
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How much added security do I really get with a longer key size?

Imagine I have a cipher which supports keys of 128, 192 or 256 bits. Suppose that there are no vulnerabilities in the cipher regardless of key length. I'm going to use it to encrypt something, and ...
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Security in wireless ad hoc sensor network (without physical access)

I want to know without taking physical access, what are the methods that can steal the data in a node. When talking about eavesdropping, how can an attacker sniff the packets? Do they need to listen ...
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How key_derivation and key_verification functions are implemented of a 7-zip archive's encryption mechanism?

I am curious about how password recovery works for password protected files. And I want to know the exact flow of the 7-zip encryption mechanism :) !! 7-zip uses the AES-256 encryption algorithm in ...
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How to find the encryption of a cipher and apply it to another key [closed]

I am very new to cryptography so please help me out with this one I have a Question Key-1 which + some encryption gives Answer key-1. I have to find the encryption to apply it to another Question ...
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Is your PGP passphrase used to decrypt an encrypted private key, or needed in conjunction with the private key to decrypt the message?

If the former, then if the private key can be used to digitally sign messages, why doesn't your client offer to encrypt this highly sensitive piece of data? If the latter, then if someone had access ...
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Convert RSA public key to the right format

I need to send a public key to my bank. I'm using CoreFTP which allows the generation of keys using RSA. It says that it generates "OpenSSH compatible certificates [sic]" when you press the generate ...
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What is the DUKPT Key Derivation Function?

I'm tasked with decrypting ciphertext acquired from an encrypted card reader. The card reader utilizes DUKPT(derived unique key per transaction) scheme and 3DES encryption. I don't have a problem with ...
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What is the recomended algorithm to create a key from a password?

In my new secret document encryption utility, the key for symmetric encryption = the hash of a random salt and a user provided password. It is necessary to have a slow hash function in order to ...
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What are you doing when you move your mouse randomly during a truecrypt volume creation?

Is that called a 'round' every time you move your mouse when creating a new volume? I'm talking about the screen with the random numbers during the volume creation process. What is the purpose of ...
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Select a TripleDES key so that it effectively behaves as regular DES

I'm working with a smartcard (DESFire) that supports both TripleDES and DES. In the specs it is stated that both modes of operation use 16 bytes keys. When the first 8 bytes in the key are identical ...
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RSA 4096 with AES 256 Encryption Process Using PyCrypto

I have the following process for encrypting and decrypting data in a python script using the PyCrypto module: Encryption - Server A AES 256 shared key is generated Associated IV is generated Data ...
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Is TDEA (TripleDES) invulnerable to the weak keys of DES?

The key space of DES includes some keys that are weak, which results in a ciphertext that is extra vulnerable to cryptanalysis. Is TDEA (also known as TripleDES) invulnerable to those weak keys? Or, ...
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RSA Key Pair generation with Javascript

I need to generate a RSA key pair with Javascript. This key pair will be used for encrypting a one time blob of data (20-100kb), then discarded. This data can be reduced to a couple of hundred kb or ...
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Hash/Digest of string; multiple clients and reverse lookup must be impossible

Ok so i need a technique (could be a system or just an algorithm) to generate a hash/digest of a string on a client app without me (admin of a server app) being able to determine what the original ...
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Asynchonous Linear Feedback Shift Register : test vectors

Well I've been working on coding LFSR structures for my research projects. Being able to find sources on the subject, I've been able to test a single LFSR with different initialisation and TAP ...