Questions tagged [encryption]
Encryption is the process of transforming plaintext using a cipher to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing the key.
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What is the difference between TEE and HSM in Android Pie?
Android has the concept of hardware backed security as TEE and in latest Android i.e., Android Pie devices can have a HSM (Strongbox).
What is the actual difference between TEE and HSM?
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iOS & Android Certificate Pinning with Lets Encrypt
We use cert pinning when developing for iOS and Android. We use regular 12 month certs that are paid for.
We recently switched to Lets Encrypt (LE) for our general website certificates and would like ...
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Enterprise message bus encryption
I'm contemplating using Amazon's Simple Queue System as the basis of an enterprise message bus. According to Amazon, the contents are not encrypted, which means the application(s) will have to handle ...
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GSM - Implementing Cipher Mode Command on YateBTS
I've been studying on Yate & YateBTS source code for a while, and I was wondering why there is no ciphering mode implementation in the source!?
I use the combination of BladeRF x40 FPGA and ...
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Is it cryptographically safe to use veracrypt in a virtualbox virtual machine?
Does virtualbox provide enough entropy (random numbers) for the veracrypt program on the virtual machine? Is it cryptographically safe to use veracrypt inside a virtualbox in a windows 10 guest?
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What kind of attacks can hardware level memory encryption protect from?
Both AMD and Intel have introduced memory encryption at the hardware level. AMD calls this Secure Memory Encryption (SME), with the Intel version being Total Memory Encryption (TME).
What kind of ...
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Is it possible to decrypt Telegram messages from a private chat?
Assuming you have access to another person's device, set up a SOCKS5 proxy, install a root certificate to parse the SSL traffic, and take a screenshot of the private key of a private chat.
Is it now ...
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Encryption data keys in single file at same location
I have an external storage which I am wanting to store encrypted files.
Strategy #1:
Each file and folder name is AES encrypted with its own data key
All data keys are saved into a single datakeys....
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Android security risk? /cache partition encryption
So I understand Android's Full Disk Encryption only encrypts the /data partition. But if the /cache partition is unencrypted, isn't that a massive security risk? As I understand it, /cache is used for ...
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Is there are way to do Per-User Encrypted Samba Storage?
I'd like to address following scenario:
Company keeps documents in-house and not in Cloud
Documents are stored on Samba Share
Sysadmins have access to the storage so they can dump it
The point is to ...
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How to differentiate between encrypted and unencrypted Bluetooth traffic while using Wireshark?
I captured Bluetooth traffic between a master vault Bluetooth smart padlock and an iPhone 6s. This was done using a Bluetooth sniffer and the captured traffic was stored to a pcap file. Analysing it ...
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How to safely store/process secret key for JWT
After reading this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30089604/jwt-whats-a-good-secret-key-and-how-to-store-it-in-an-node-js-express-app, on how to store "secret key" to assign JWT tokens. I had ...
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DPAPI Distributed key manager
I have a number of configuration files and binary data that needs to be stored encrypted on disk. Only the user who encrypted should be able to decrypt the information. So far, I have successfully ...
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What is the openssl equivalent of using java's KeyPairGenerator?
I have been using java's KeyPairGenerator in order to generate public/private keys within a program so that I can encrypt and decrypt files(also using java encrypt/decrypt methods). I want to be able ...
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How is TSC (TKIP sequence counter) calculated, in WPA?
I'm reading about 802.11, from IEEE's PDF, from page 1191, and in particularly I'm reading about TKIP. To decrypt and encrypt, you use a TSC (TKIP Sequence Counter) as you can see in these images:
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Some http requests are not send encrypted by vpn! Why?
I subscribed to a VPN service recently, and installed wireshark to take a look at the traffic sent from my computer.
Practically all of it goes through UDP protocol, encrypted. But there are two HTTP ...
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Best practices for storing long-term access credentials locally in a desktop application?
I'm wondering how applications like Skype and Dropbox store access credentials securely on a user's computer. I imagine the flow for doing this would look something like this:
Prompt the user for a ...
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Why does GPG --recipient only pick one (arbitrary) key for identical names, instead of all of them?
I have a recipient with four hardware keys (HKs) that they use interchangeably. These HKs contain different GPG keys that have all been generated inside and have never left the HKs, thus resulting in ...
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How can we protect encrypted files and directories from being fingerprinted when stored on online storage services?
Assuming that online storage providers are considered untrusted, if files and directories are encrypted, how can these be protected against fingerprinting?
The files are encrypted using rclone's ...
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How does Veracrypt work?
I’m a layman in security and was trying to understand how hashes and encryption algorithms are used in Veracrypt/Truecrypt.
Reading the documentation, this is what I understood (please, feel free to ...
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Cambridge University paper on Android factory reset still up to date?
An answer (Data deleted after encryption - recoverable?) came to conclusions, which triggered some questions for me.
Link to the paper: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/fr_most15.pdf
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Using asymmetric keys for two factor authentication
Here's what I'm trying to do:
Multiple users with different devices will share the same copy of a file which is encrypted on server-side using AES with a randomly generated passphrase, the passphrase ...
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Decrypting possibly compromised Veracrypt hard drive
I have a Veracrypt encrypted hard drive, a system drive encryption with the operating system.
The laptop is possibly compromised, which is why I can't decrypt it directly on the laptop I don't know ...
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Encrypt User specific Information without a password
Given scenario:
I have an application (NodeJS) running on Heroku, the database is RDS on Amazon and I use Auth0 for authentication. I don't have access to passwords of the users, some users use social ...
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GPG: how to encrypt using a keyfile? (symmetric)
In Ubuntu this produces a "filename.txt.gpg" file and works:
$ gpg --symmetric --passphrase-file keyfile.key filename.txt
In debian, I get a popup requesting I enter a password...
How do I encrypt ...
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macOS Data Protection without FileVault
I'm running macOS 10.14, and have encountered a problem which prevents me from enabling FileVault. As best as I can determine, there are no free and convenient alternatives for full disk encryption, ...
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storing equality and diversity data - is it normally encrypted?
Is it the normative secure practice for databases storing E&D data (ethnicity, for example) on personally identifiable individuals?
Assume a system where all other security features are also up ...
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Is there a secure, anonymous peer to peer matching solution?
I am newbie so please pardon my naivete. I was wondering if there is any cryptographic procedure that allows for peer to peer matching.
Perhaps to illustrate my question I will use an example. Say I ...
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How can I identify which SCHANNEL events are being generated by a Remote Desktop connection attempt?
I need to check which encryption level is being used for a Windows Remote Desktop session. I found this question, which shows how to enable logging that shows the client handshake and level of ...
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Prevent developer/owner from seeing user data with insecure API
I am building a chatbot for my university in GroupMe, which very popular there. The bot will, for example, allow users to send messages to their chat groups like /menus (assuming that "/" is the ...
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How dangerous is it to transmit the last N bytes of a datagram in plaintext?
I'm developing software for a university satellite project, and am currently working on the communications protocols. Here are the restrictions:
Radio packets should be assumed to be no larger than ...
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What encryption type does Windows Hello use for fingerprint information on Windows 10 latest build?
I've contacted Microsoft support and they said they don't support encryption, which is why I'm posting here.
Basically, what I'm wondering is, if a modern laptop has TPM 2.0 enabled and hardware ...
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Does hardware encryption fail for jailbroken iOS device?
I know that iOS has a hardware encryption that it encrypts all your data using your passcode when the screen is locked. However, when I jailbreak my iPhone and ssh to the iOS device, I can browse all ...
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Client Side Encryption (CSE) across multiple clients
Working on 2 layer security in the cloud (AWS). Have multiple clients pushing files to S3 document storage which are then retrieved by one EC2 instance.
Multiple external customers each requiring ...
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How to securely store SSN details in a database while maintaining searches?
My question is very similar to this one, but in my situation I do not need to recover the real value. My concern with just hashing the value is that since there's a finite and (relatively) small ...
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Older Cell / Smart phones were susceptible to bluesnarfing / bluetooth attacks, Why specifically are smartphones secure from this attack now?
Older cell / smart phones were susceptible to bluesnarfing / Bluetooth attacks, Nokia phones in particular. But now in days, modern smart phone and cell phones that use Bluetooth technology for ...
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Is the RSA Private Key non-exportable option protected from key extraction?
I would like to know if the non-exportable private key option, virtualized based security, selected when importing an RSA certificate guaranteed although the user will never be able to see the RSA ...
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Long-term symmetric key storage
I have some sensitive data that I need to encrypt and retain long-term (i.e., 5+ years at least). I'd ideally like to secure it using multiple hardware devices via a Shamir share. Something like:
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Encrypting links between registered users and their sensitive data
I want to make it impractical to link the users to their sensitive data without their passwords – even with a full access to the database.
Furthermore, if a user has multiple pieces of sensitive data, ...
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Group Instant Messaging: How to securely store messages on the backend while supporting cross-device message history in a group chat?
I want to build a group chat app where messages are transmitted and stored as securely as they can be, but where the message history is still visible after you or others in the group have changed ...
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Key handling for shared-key encryption with sodium
Being not a cryptography expert, I am having some basic questions on how to manage keys wrt. sodium-plus. Let me briefly explain the context: the use case involves sending data from a web frontend to ...
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Is AES statistically noise? Reliably so?
Suppose we want to store files in a way that has plausible deniability. Ie. we can deny the existance of those files.
The approach is this: We allocate (or just use) a chuck of disk an initialize it ...
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Why don't CAs advertize public keys of verified entities on a central location instead of giving out signed certificates?
If CAs (Certification Authorities) start advertizing public keys of verified websites via some API, browsers can simply query them for each domain instead of asking websites to give them certificates ...
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Storing a key in SRAM in an embedded device
I'm working on an embedded device which need to decrypt a file in USB stick using a secret key. I read many questions about storing a key in embedded device and found that it's secure to store a key ...
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How to improve security of a stored password?
Our application needs to store a password in a database. It‘s not possible to store a hash because the password is needed to access other data that are protected by this password.
Currently, the ...
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How challenge response password recovery mechanism works with disk encryption?
For the sole purpose of learning, I am trying to figure out how disk encryption software is able to recover password of an encrypted disk using a challenge response mechanism.
Th recovery process ...
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What are the exact stepts made to establish a ssh connection?
From what I've read, I was able to deduce a number of steps but I am not sure if they cover all action or if they are 100% correct.
Initial setup for client
Enables ssh service
Initial setup for ...
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Credential Storage for Partner/Vendor Accounts
We work with many other companies to do data exchange. As an example, we might work with COMPANY A to send them sensitive data over SFTP. This would be done by them giving us an SFTP Host/Account/...
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How do biometric password managers work?
Many password managers for mobile offer the option to unlock the password vault with a fingerprint instead of a password. If you never type in your master password, how is it possible to decrypt the ...
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Jasypt Password Based Encryption Storing Password Key
StandardPBEStringEncryptor encryptor = new StandardPBEStringEncryptor();
encryptor.setPassword("jasypt"); // we HAVE TO set a password
encryptor.setAlgorithm("...
