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Where should we promote our site and what images should be used?
Graduated SE sites each have a meta question where users can submit ads, which if upvoted at least 6 times will be displayed on the main site. This provides a good way for us to promote Crypto.SE on ...
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Style for consecutive links
I ran into this a while ago and just noticed it on a newer answer to a question recently migrated here. The problem is if you have multiple links in succession, it is impossible to tell that there are ...
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Suggested tag: rolling-your-own-crypto
How do you guys feel about introducing a rolling-your-own-crypto tag? We would then re-tag questions where the user is asking about homegrown crypto algorithms, homegrown crypto protocols, and/or ...
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Request: Please make takedown notice public, and upload it to Chilling Effects [closed]
Stack Exchange has apparently received a DMCA takedown notice from CipherCloud, requiring Stack Exchange to delete a post with analysis of CipherCloud's product.
I'd like to ask that Stack Exchange ...
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CipherCloud DMCA notice
CipherCloud just filed a DMCA notice with stack exchange to take down the question How is CipherCloud doing homomorphic encryption? (now deleted by stackexchange).
Since I obviously can't post the ...
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A tag for “How can I become familiar with the logic syntax used in Cryptography papers” question
This question tagged as encryption. encryption tag is not suitable tag for the question. Which tag is suitable for such questions? It seems we need a new tag for such questions.
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Asking question about RSA on Stackexchange
There is an explanation of math behind the RSA on:
What is the relation between RSA & Fermat's little theorem?
It is answered by Antony Vennard. It looks very interesting, but unfortunately ...
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Cryptography's favicon is inconsistent with larger icons
Crypto's larger icons show Cr but the favicon is CR. I suspect this is unintended (especially as the current favicon is identical with Code Review's).
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Mathjax is too slow on Firefox 3
It slows down the browsing, the browser consumes 99% CPU for like 2 seconds after a page is loaded. And editing a page with some mathjax expressions is hell slow, probably because of preview. Why ...
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Can't submit a question
I try to submit a question, but i get error
This post appears to be a duplicate of Can SRP be used with Elliptic Curves?
If you click on the link, you'll see the question is deleted. Seems to be ...
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Why do i get captcha when posting a question?
Why do i get captcha when posting a question?
Besides that - captchas cost like $1 for 1000 and don't protect from bots. They just annoy legal users.
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Is there a sandbox where i can test how the site works?
Is there a sandbox where i can test how the site works?
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Is describing a technology used in cryptography (Smart Card) on-topic?
I recently jumped on making a rather long answer to this question: What is a Smart Card?, without asking myself: is it on-topic?
Also, my answer contains a lengthy historic/introductory part, with ...
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Flagging a question twice
I accidentally flagged a question twice (for a different thing the second time) because I thought the first one had been declined when in fact it had been marked as helpful. Can the moderators delete ...
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Should we use SSL on our website?
Should an Exchange about Cryptography utilize SSL encryption on it's website?
I'm not quite sure what the cost is, or how these are given out on the Exchange, but it seems pretty silly not to provide ...
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What sort of “cryptosystem verification” would be on-topic/allowed here?
I'm considering posting a design of a proof-of-work system here and asking a few questions about it, but in the FAQ, it specifically states that you do not want questions about "cryptanalysis of a ...
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Should we participate in Winter Bash 2012?
Last year the Gaming site hosted an event called Hat Dash, where users earned "hats" for their gravatars by completing certain tasks (analogous to badges). Certain actions would trigger the user ...
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Tagging of questions about IND-CPA and IND-CCA security
In the past, I (and presumably others) used to tag questions about ciphertext indistinguishability under various attack scenarios with the tags for the relevant attacks (e.g. chosen-plaintext-attack ...
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Handling and tagging of questions involving home-grown schemes?
Sometime we have questions about a home-grown scheme, typically a weak cipher, sometime ill-posed; e.g. recent example 1 and example 2.
This is related to Should we allow questions about amateur ...
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Out of phase comments
The following scenario lead to an inconsistent state in a page:
A answers question Q;
B comments on the answer;
A edits its answer to Q';
B's comment does not apply to Q' anymore.
However, even if ...
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New Tag : legal
I think it would be nice to tag :
AESManaged Trade Compliance Issue in United States
How are state wiretaps obtaining plaintext from encrypted transmissions?
questions with [legal] tag on the ...
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Are legal issues surrounding cryptography on topic here?
This question titled "Hash Digest Legal Status" was recently asked and closed as off topic. Since I couldn't actually find anything in the FAQ explicitly disallowing such questions, nor any past meta ...
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On the issue of (un)scattering
There are a lot of issues that keep being raised again and again. Currently, basically the same answer would be provided again and again. This adds redundancy, which in itself is probably not a bad ...
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What is the proper use of the tag military-cryptography?
There is no tag summary for military-cryptography. There are only three questions with that tag. Only one of those do I feel has a remotely "military" feel to it. What should this tag be used for or ...
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How do we handle the recent announcement of the SHA-3 winner?
The winner of the SHA-3 competition was announced today. We already have a tag edit for sha-3, but some of the questions with sha-3 will undoubtedly reference the contest instead of the new family of ...
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Are questions about steganography on topic here?
With the recent proposal for a Steganography stack exchange over on Area 51, I would be interested to know if Steganography questions are on-topic here on Cryptography.
I suggested that they might in ...
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Are existence questions on topic?
I've been going through some of the unanswered questions and I've seen a few that are very difficult to answer. They go something like this:
I want to do X. Does there exist a ...
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Timestamping tag
Could be created special tag for timestamping ?
Cryptography Timestamping (a.k.a Trusted Timestamping), I think should deserve it's own tag. (IMHO "Cryptographic timestamping" is better name, because ...
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Implementation List Questions
It seems we have had a few questions recently asking for references on implementations. For example:
Are there any Implementations of Secure Indexes?
How to implement order preserving encryption or ...
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Elliptic-Curves and ECC tags
We currently have the tags ecc (28 questions) for elliptic-curve-crypto, and elliptic-curves (11 questions) - 5 questions have both tags.
Should we rename ecc to elliptic-curve-crypto?
Should we ...
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The security tag
The security seems rather redundant - isn't almost all cryptography related to security?
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How do we get users to accept answers?
I'm noticing a few active members of this site with very low accept rates. Is there a generally accepted method for enouraging those members to go back and accept answers? Or at least to get them to ...
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Why does the site change how it displays comments?
EDIT: I got it to happen again, and this time it took much longer than 5 minutes.
I've sort of noticed it happening before, but I wasn't sure, and even assuming I was correct I didn't have an idea of ...
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Suggested tag synonyms
aes <-- rijndael (rijndael was the original name of aes) withdrawn because only one variant of rijndael became AES
random-number-generator <-- prng (rng is a synonym already)
ssl <-- https ...
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Link in comment
On this question I was trying to put a link in a comment. The link is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(algorithm). But the end parentheses isn't part of the link. Is this a bug, or am I just doing something ...
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Why I dont have the badges i should be having?
I wish to understand why I do not have the Teacher and Supporter badges. I have already cast a few up votes, and my first answer did earn up votes on this site. Has this something to do with the fact ...
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Should we/I setup a community-wiki question like “Cryptographic formulas in TeX”?
I need both a reference and examples relevant to crypto for the TeX dialect we can use on crypto.stackexchange.com. I know there is tex.stackexchange.com but they no not even have the TeX extension ...
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Should tags be based the answer?
Should good answers to a question influence which tags are appropriate for that question thread? In other words, are the tags dictated only by the content of the question, or by the content of the ...
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Setting up the next chat event - call for topics!
Well hello again.
It has been a while since we did a chat event, and I think we should do another one soon. We now have a community calendar which this and other events can be entered into, so, for ...
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Are questions about the articulation of cryptographic concepts and methods in software development on topic?
I've been asking some application-related questions recently:
is-a-random-length-extension-worth-the-effort
tips-on-conceiving-safe-software-messaging-platform
And I wonder if software application ...
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Tag request: “semantic security”
It seems that we should have a tag for "semantic security". I've seen a couple of posts in the last couple weeks that would qualify for that tag, and semantic security is more than just about chosen ...
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are history of cryptography questions allowed?
I want to make some questions regarding the history of cryptography. particularly I want material/information about WWII german code breakers.
Is this the site to ask the question or should I ask in ...
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Cryptography self-evaluation: how ARE you doing? [closed]
There are lots of metrics we can use to "measure" a site, and we do, but none of them matter as much as having a healthy and happy site full of interesting questions and expert answers.
So, let's ...
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Is paying or donating for answers allowed here?
I am trying to learn crypto and build some background knowlege to finish a CompTIA security certification.
Is there a way to pay or donate for answers to my basic questions since I do not have any ...
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My question has been closed. What do I do now?
So after the runaway success of A guide to moderating crypto.stackexchange yourself - close voting, mostly due to some shameless self promotion, and partly because I feel I do not have enough space ...
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Stack Overflow Worldwide Meetups 2012: You're invited!
We're having a Stack Overflow meetup to get together with fellow programming, web, and other technology enthusiasts. But not all of our programmers and technology enthusiasts live on Stack Overflow, ...
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New Beta Theme Launched
Your site looks a bit different today. Yes, we are getting rid of the 'Sketchy' look and replacing it with a more-polished and finished design for sites in beta.
You can read more about the redesign ...
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Interested in the SE moderation process?
Then the assembly is the room you need.
As some of you may or may not know, moderators have a room that's hidden from public eyes. There's several reasons for this:
We need, sometimes, to discuss ...
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I was just awarded the Vox Populi badge erroneously
StackExchange just proudly announced that I just awarded the Vox Populi badge. However, that's for voting 40 times in a day; I don't think I voted more than 2 or 3 times in a single day, ever. Did ...
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