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Is secp256r1 more secure than secp256k1?
Sep 4, 2014
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What is a "freestart collision"?
Oct 8, 2015
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Are checksums essentially non-secure versions of cryptographic hashes?
Feb 21, 2016
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Can Shannon's entropy be used to determine if a file is encrypted?
Jun 29, 2016
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Can I remove newlines in a public key?
Sep 10, 2014
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How to find modulus from a RSA public key?
Jul 7, 2014
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Is HMAC needed for a SHA-3 based MAC?
Jun 29, 2014
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Is it better to encrypt before compression or vice versa?
Mar 16, 2016
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What is the recommended number of iterations for Argon2?
Jun 18, 2016
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HMAC-SHA1 vs HMAC-SHA256
Aug 17, 2015
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Cite link for crypto.se?
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Mathematicians being elitist?
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Merge “file-encryption” tag with “encryption”?
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Should we correct tag "Attribute-based-encry"?
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Let's actually vote on our site-specific close reasons! (2016 edition)
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Stopword removal with NLTK
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What do the changes in `free` output from 14.04 to 16.04 mean?
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Python Pandas : How to skip columns when reading a file?
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Why separate code and non-code licensing?
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Can I get a public key from PGP signature?