Salt (cryptography)

SafetyPin: Encrypted Backups with Human-Memorable Secrets

We present the design and implementation of SafetyPin, a system for encrypted mobile-device backups. Like existing cloud-based mobile-backup systems, including those of Apple and Google, SafetyPin requires users to remember only a short PIN and defends aga ...

USENIX Association2020

SafetyPin: Encrypted Backups with Human-Memorable Secrets

Henry Nathaniel Corrigan-Gibbs

USENIX ASSOC2020

A Standalone FPGA-Based Miner for Lyra2REv2 Cryptocurrencies

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Pascal Giard

Lyra2REv2 is a hashing algorithm that consists of a chain of individual hashing algorithms, and it is used as a proof-of-work function in several cryptocurrencies. The most crucial and exotic hashing algorithm in the Lyra2REv2 chain is a specific instance ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

PassGAN: A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing

Fernando Perez Cruz

State-of-the-art password guessing tools, such as HashCat and John the Ripper, enable users to check billions of passwords per second against password hashes. In addition to performing straightforward dictionary attacks, these tools can expand password dic ...

Springer International Publishing2019

Cryptographically verifiable data structure having multi-hop forward and backwards links and associated systems and methods

Bryan Alexander Ford, Philipp Svetolik Jovanovic, Linus Gasser, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias

Data storage and retrieval systems, methods, and computer-readable media utilize a cryptographically verifiable data structure that facilitates verification of a transaction in a decentralized peer-to-peer environment using multi-hop backwards and forwards ...

2018

Method for Generating an HTML Document that Contains Encrypted Files and the Code Necessary for Decrypting Them When a Valid Passphrase is Provided

Radhakrishna Achanta, Thomas Lochmatter

A computer implemented method for encrypting one or more files and wrapping them in an HTML document. The HTML document contains the encrypted files, the necessary code to decrypt the files, as well as user interface code to receive a passphrase input from ...

2015

Efficient Ephemeral Elliptic Curve Cryptographic Keys

Arjen Lenstra, Andrea Miele

We show how any pair of authenticated users can on-the-fly agree on an elliptic curve group that is unique to their communication session, unpredictable to outside observers, and secure against known attacks. Our proposal is suitable for deployment on cons ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2015