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Decrypting TLS in Wireshark when using DHE_RSA ciphersuites

How can I decrypt TLS messages when an ephemeral Diffie-Hellman ciphersuite is used? I am able to expose the premaster secret and master secret from the SSL Client. Using that, how to decrypt the ...
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How to open a .txt.enc file?

I have a .txt.enc file. It is an output of openssl enc. I need to open it. When I try to open it in Emacs, the first some characters(also known characters) are : 'Salted__C' . how can I understand ...
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Are private keys generated by different software packages compatible?

I know that GnuPG follows the OpenPGP standard, but if I generate a public/private key pair using GnuPG and upload the public key to a key server, i.e. the one at MIT, or use it to sign files, ...
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File security when encrypting files directly with the openssl command / and what about SHA1 hashing password first?

I've been using this command to encrypt files for a while now: openssl aes-256-cbc -a -salt -in secrets.txt -out secrets.txt.enc Then I type in a password. Can someone tell me, roughly speaking, ...
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What are the differences between ssh generated keys(ssh-keygen) and OpenSSL keys (PEM)and what is more secure for ssh remote login?

I have learned there are 2 methods to make SSH remote login easier and secure , those are; ssh generated keys (using ssh-keygen)OpenSSH Keys PEM (.pem) keys usually generated with OpenSSL (Amazon ...
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openssl: recover key and IV by passphrase

A large amount of files were encrypted by openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -pass pass:MYPASSWORD Openssl should derive key+IV from passphrase. I'd like to know key+IV equivalent of that MYPASSWORD. Is ...
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Wheres the salt on the openssl aes encryption?

Im interested in knowing how and where openssl inserts the generated salt on an AES encrypted data. Why? Im encrypting data in Java classes and need to guarantee that i can use openssl to decrypt them ...
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OpenSSL fails NIST AES-128-ECB test vectors?

I'm having trouble getting OpenSSL's ciphertext to match the NIST test vectors. Example : in "ecb_e_m.txt" from http://csrc.nist.gov/archive/aes/rijndael/rijndael-vals.zip, the first test is (in hex) ...
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Are SSL Certificates (Private and Public key) generated by OpenSSL and makecert compatible?

Are RSA SSL Certificates (Private and Public key) generated by makecert compatible with OpenSSL decryption ie. can I decrypt them with the openssl_* methods? I am working on two-way SSL authentication ...
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Protecting passphrases within an application

First off, I'm not very familiar with encryption best-practices. My use-case is simple: I'm creating an application that will be reading encrypted documents and decrypting them dynamically to do some ...