Tim McLean

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

https://www.chosenplaintext.ca/

Software engineer, but I read crypto papers. Formerly known as user595228.

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Read file character-by-character in Rust

io rust asked Feb 13, 2016 at 21:47

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15 votes

Solving Systems of Equations with SymPy

python sympy asked Feb 25, 2012 at 1:37

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15 votes

How is "post-quantum security" proven/shown?

provable-security post-quantum-cryptography asked Oct 24, 2015 at 8:00

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9 votes

What's the reasoning behind the design of the TLS 1.2 PRF?

tls key-derivation asked Apr 9, 2016 at 4:16

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8 votes

Curve25519 vs "Million Dollar Curve"

elliptic-curves elliptic-curve-generation asked Jan 2, 2016 at 2:12

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7 votes

Multi-target attacks on AES-CTR with a random nonce

block-cipher symmetric ctr multi-target asked Feb 4, 2016 at 2:31

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7 votes

Efficient mod 3 in x86 assembly

assembly x86-64 micro-optimization asked May 27, 2017 at 2:18

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6 votes

Would key stretching help mitigate concerns with "verifiably random"?

elliptic-curves standards elliptic-curve-generation asked May 31, 2015 at 18:29

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6 votes

Are shorter password hashes safe?

hash passwords pbkdf-2 asked Sep 22, 2015 at 22:30

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5 votes

Using HMAC as a nonce with AES-CTR encrypt-and-MAC

hmac authenticated-encryption ctr nonce deterministic-encryption asked Nov 28, 2015 at 23:24

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HMAC vs ECDSA for JWT

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installing d3 using npm causes contextify errors

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Example of a PRP that is not a strong PRP

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What Diffie-Hellman parameters should I use?

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Nonce encryption with Poly1305-Chacha20

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Why is Poly1305 popular given its 'sudden death' properties?

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Why is hybrid encryption more effective than other encryption scheme?

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Is there a correct way to generate a symmetric key?

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Signing Files vs. Signing File Hashes

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Computing the padding of MD5

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Does the SHA-256 sum of a 256-bit key help you crack it?

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How to create a JavaScript object from JSON data returned from server

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Transmuting `bool` to `u8`

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Example of a PRP that is not a strong PRP

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Algorithm to transform plaintext to a key of desired keysize, when using input plaintext as key for FPE?

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What about using AES-ECB with random IV?

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