Code: [https://github.com/zeorin/passwordbook](https://github.com/zeorin/passwordbook) I have [already posted this](https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptography/comments/1mxcax4/i_made_a_password_book_generator/) on r/cryptography and gotten some useful feedback, but I'm still looking for more. 😁 Current implementation: Seed passprase is generated as per bip39, and then its bits are used to derive a key …
For a given P, n and G where P=n\*G and finding n from P is DLP problem. We know it is hard to solve. How come they find n easily in case of G = (n-1)\*G, which is also curve's …
I am a decent C programmer, but I have next to zero knowledge in cryptography. Now, if I was to implement "naïvely" some well-established crypto-related standard protocol like https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2898.txt or https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7296.txt , what do you think would be the risks …
Hi, I’m currently writing my bachelor thesis about factoring Algorithms. One of them is Pollard Rho, so here is my question: In his paper Pollard states that the pseudorandom sequence: $x_{i+1}=x_{i}^{2}$ shouldn’t be used for his algorithm. Why so? I …
I am interested in auditing cryptographic source code on my spare time. Some of the projects I am considering auditing include GNUPG, Sequoia-PGP, Mullvad, and Rustls. For those of you who have experience auditing cryptographic source code what advice would …
I have learnt that Classic McEliece made it to round 3 of NIST but was rejected in favor of Kyber for ML-KEM. McEliece was introduced in 1978--around the same time as RSA and remains resistant to classical and post-quantum cryptanalysis …
I was studying Menezes Qu Vanstone from Serious Cryptography 2nd Edition. Aumasson mentions MQV is elegant and more secure than Authenticated Diffie-Hellman. You cannot break MQV just by leaking ephemeral secrets. Even if a long-term key is compromised the previously …