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Reddit by CheriMyst January 21, 2026

Guide on SMT/MILP based linear and differential analysis

I have come up with a new lightweight ARX based cipher and want to perform linear and differential analysis based on SMT or MILP tool. Please guide me how and what to do.

Reddit by AbbreviationsGreen90 January 17, 2026

What happens if an elliptic curve over large characteristics has a negative trace?

Of course, this means having an order larger than the underlying finite s field order s. Are there any security implication? What s the name of such curves?

Reddit by Soatok January 15, 2026

The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography

Reddit by AbbreviationsGreen90 January 14, 2026

Do non anomalous curves expressed over a local p adic field have embedding degrees?

I m talking about curves that aren t anomalous. Is it possible to perform the Weil pairing in such a case? If yes does the notion of embeding degree exists or it s impossible to have a pairing that preserve bilinearity?

Reddit by peiklinn January 14, 2026

ASCON-128 RTL(pure verilog)failing NIST test vectors

Anyone here implemented ASCON-128 in RTL? My Verilog implementation fails the official NIST test vectors. I’ve tried bitsliced and non-bitsliced, and even checked multiple GitHub RTL repos, but none seem to pass the vectors as-is. I’ve already checked: endianness padding / domain separation round constants & permutation order Outputs are …

Reddit by jrakibi January 13, 2026

Interactive SHA-256 visualizer

For years I kept seeing SHA-256 everywhere, in bitcoin, TLS, Git, proofs, ... but every explanation either skipped the details or showed the same diagram that hides the actual work. Most resources explain hashing as: > Which is fine for beginners, but it leaves out the interesting part: how the …