The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Stewardship of an ecryptfs tag
I am one of the authors and the current maintainer of eCryptfs, a cryptographic filesystem for Linux. It's been in the Linux kernel since about 2006. It's the cryptographic filesystem used by ...
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Chat meeting #3: Review a book
Announcing our next chat meeting which will take place on Tuesday 28th February 2012 at 19:30 UTC - please adjust for your timezone. You can sign up for reminders in your timezone on the schedule ...
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Chat meeting #2 on tuesday, 24th of january 2012
So I've got myself in gear and organised chat meeting number 2, a chance for as all to get together in chat. I apologise for only giving six days notice. Things I think we should consider covering:
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Setting up crypto challenges - call for volunteers
Ok, so another wacky promotion idea I had. I would like to add I had it before somebody else launched theirs!
Anyway, here is the concept:
Challenges
As discussed in chat, I suggested we run some ...
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Meta tags: [scope], [allowed-questions] and [closed-questions]
While tagging this question, I noticed that we have scope, allowed-questions and closed-questions. Should they just be merged?
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Should we allow questions about amateur ciphers?
Our FAQ currently says:
Do we accept questions asking for cryptanalysis of your cipher (hash function, ...) design?
No, we do not. If you want peer review of your full cryptographic scheme, ...
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Chat event #2 - planning?
So, after chat event number 1 went fairly well I think, I hereby propose we have chat event number 2.
The date and time is yet to be decided. With Christmas nearly upon us for those who celebrate it, ...
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Towards an acceptable solution for textbook requests
So we've had a bit of a debate in chat between the mods and some users (more users in chat would be awesome) about reference request posts. I thought, having slept on it for two nights, I would lay ...
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Chat event #1 - meet the moderators
Us moderators have colluded and found a time we can all make for the first chatcast event (see the link for the proposed idea).
The first chatcast thing will be on (Monday) the 28th of November at ...
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Should we name our chat room?
As you know, we have a chat room! Where you are welcome to come and have a chat about... whatever you like.
I have previously suggested potentially having chatcast/organised meetings in there. To ...
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Is it OK to ask for cryptanalysis of a cipher which was still widely deployed a few years ago?
I'm wondering if the following question would be on topic and ethical:
How would the stream cipher GOC be cryptanalyzed with modern techniques?
The GOC (Générateur d'Octets Chiffrants) is a stream ...
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Do we need the [algorithm] tag?
I just found the algorithm tag, our most-used tag without a tag wiki (excerpt).
It has 16 questions (7 asked in the last 30 days), and I can't seem to find what this tag indicates (for writing it ...
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Do we want “challenge”/analyse-this questions and if so what constraints, if any, should we put on them?
So earlier I decided to close this question based on several factors. I chose too localised, because I don't think such a question really benefits anyone as it stands.
This raised the question in my ...
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Crypto “chatcasts”?
So, I have an idea... this is based partly on the fact that certain things such as book lists and subjective discussion aren't great fits for the SE engine (although communities have been known to ...
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What should I do when I see an incorrect answer?
This is a continuation of a discussion from a comment thread elsewhere.
Here is the basic question. When I see an incorrect answer, what would you recommend that I do?
I have always assumed that ...
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Asking homework questions
Is it desirable for people to ask a homework question here?
Set aside for now the question of how this would be enforced. I'm more interesting in the policy question, and in our goals. Is this ...
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Asking question for which I know the answer
Is it ok to ask a question that I think is relevant for this community (and for which there doesn't seem to be an easily-found answer via google) even if I know the answer?
It seems we have a paucity ...
