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Questions about the construction and analysis of protocols and algorithms for secure computation and communication (including authentication, integrity, and privacy aspects).

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Are tamper attacks considered side-channel?

Wikipedia defines side-channel attacks as: any attack based on information gained from the physical implementation of a cryptosystem Usually in side channel attacks the implementations leak info …
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Why is encrypting with the same one-time-pad not good?

To encrypt a message $m_1$ with a one-time-pad key $k$ you do $Enc(m_1,k) = m_1 \oplus k$. If you use the same $k$ to encrypt a different message $m_2$ you get $Enc(m_2,k) = m_2 \oplus k$, and if yo …
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