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| | neilmadden.blog

If you read or watch any recent tutorial on symmetric (or "secret key") cryptography, one lesson should be clear: in 2018 if you want to encrypt something you'd better useauthenticated encryption.This not only hides the content of a message, but also ensures that the message was sent by one of the parties that has access...
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| | blog.cryptographyengineering.com

If you've hung around this blog for a while, you probablyknow how much I like to complain. (Really, quite a lot.) You might even be familiar with one of my favorite complaints:dumb cryptostandards. More specifically:dumb standards promulgated by smart people. The people in question almost always have justifications for whatever earth-shakingly stupid decision they're about...
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This isn't (necessarily) a security vulnerability; merely an observation that I don't think has been articulated adequately within the cryptography community. I thought it would be worth capturing somewhere public so that others can benefit from a small insight when designing cryptosystems. Background Once upon a time, there was Symmetric Encryption, which provided confidentiality, but...
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| | www.paragonie.com

A simple, accessible recommendation for key sizes and recommended algorithms for various cryptographic algorithms.
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