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What is a trans-cipher?
While discussing archive authenticity/integrity for long term and the problem of potentially re-keying in case of compromise, someone came up with the term "trans-cipher" (or "trans-ciphering"). I ...
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CMS/PKCS#7: specifying signatureAlgorithm with digest?
I'm confused about algorithm selection for Cryptographic Message Syntax (a.k.a. CMS, PKCS#7) signed objects (RFC5652 Section 5.1). The SignerInfo structure (RFC5652 Section 5.3) has two separate ...
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Algorithms for transaction authentication
It's unclear to me how transaction signing and transaction authentication work. Industrial solutions use both symmetric and asymmetric algorithms to compute the signature. What does RSA add the one-...
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Using secp256k1 and ECDSA with IKE
I just tried using an IKE daemon and EC certificates. I used the secp256k1 curve for key generation. The daemon claims signature scheme ECDSA-256 not supported by private key Now I am wondering if ...