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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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How to send a fixed size encrypted message to be broadcast to multiple (known) recipients wi...

One way that comes to my mind is using methods like Diffie-Hellman tree, to generate a Diffie Hellman key-pair which is shared between all recipients. It is then used by the sender to send message. Bu …
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Why use an IV when the message length is only one block?

Now that I can comment I am taking a part of my answer to comment IV makes your encryption probabilistic and pseudo-random. … But semantic insecurity inherent in fully deterministic encryption scheme still remains if you do not use IV. …
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Nonce in Aes-gcm AAD

All you need for GCM is use the same AAD used during encryption, during decryption if you want to pass authentication. …
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Naming encrypted files in the cloud, without leaking info about their content

File Identification key FIDK = HKDF-expand(FK,"fidk") and Encryption Key EK = HKDF-expand(FK,"ek") or something like that. …
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Need some clarification regards end-to-end encryption process

basically in nutshell, end-to-end encrypted systems need something which use the long term private/public keys for authentication but use ephemeral key pairs for actual session establishment and data encryption
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Using Private Key for encryption

If some message can be recovered by using some publicly available information, it is not encryption. BECAUSE, the goal of encryption is confidentiality. … Not all schemes allow both signatures and encryption schemes in similar ways but the question was about RSA so I will leave it here. …
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how do i find the number of possible keys / password to decrypt a plain text

In does not matter how many rounds of caesar cipher you use, effectively it still becomes one single round with key (k1+k2+k3 ....kn) mod a, where a is the number of alphabets, 26 in English alphabet. …
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