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Anytown, ST 25519
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An apology to our community, and next steps
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Has SHA256 been broken by Treadwell Stanton DuPont?
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In end-to-end encryption, doesn't the server need to be trusted?
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To reach out: on Monica, the Lavender community, and the future of the Stack Exchange network
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Is Bcrypt a hashing algorithm or is my study material wrong?
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Soft question: Examples where lack of mathematical rigour cause security breaches?
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What, if anything, can SE do to resolve the ongoing conflict in a timely way?
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How are side-channel attacks executed? What does an attacker need to execute a side channel attack?
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Is the software that uses PGP broken, or is it PGP itself?
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Does "Shattered" actually show SHA-1-signed certificates are "unsafe"?
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How is the Swiss post e-voting system supposed to work, and how was it wrong?
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What is the difference between SHA-3 and SHA-256?
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Elliptic curve ed25519 vs ed448 - Differences
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ECDSA, EdDSA and ed25519 relationship / compatibility
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When is incorrect pronoun usage likely to offend people based on gender?
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If password expiration is applied, should door-lock expiration be applied too?
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How can I prevent side-channel attacks against authentication?
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Is there really no use for MD5 anymore?
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Can we assume that a hash function with high collision resistance also means a highly uniform distribution?
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Is there a bulletproof way to know a file has been successfully decrypted?
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Curve25519 over Ed25519 for key exchange? Why?
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What are standard cryptographic assumptions?
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How is the oracle in Grover's search algorithm implemented?
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How to check whether the permutation is random or not
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How effective is quantum computing against elliptic curve cryptography?
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Could we break MD5 entirely in the future?
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What is the practical impact of using System.Random which is not cryptographically random?
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Is using the same IV in AES similar to not using an IV in the first place?
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Suppose I capture encrypted data that I want to decrypt. Could I use a server farm to decrypt?
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Summarize the mathematical problem at the heart of breaking a Curve25519 public key
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