Hayden McNally

Teaching Aid – POODLE and Padding Oracle Attack

Walkthrough : https://youtu.be/E9EZ3AXqHSE Code Repository : https://github.com/HaydenMcNally/ISEC-603-Padding-Oracle History of the Padding Oracle Attack Padding Oracle attacks, also known as Vaudenay attacks was originally published in 2002 by Serge Vaudenay. The term ‘padding oracle’ appeared in literature in 2002, after Serge Vaudenay’s attack on the CBC mode decryption used within symmetric block ciphers. The earliest well-known …

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Tor’s Broken?

A recent article posted on September 19th claims to have seen evidence that German police and authorities successfully de-anonymized a Tor user which resulted in their arrest and conviction back in 2022. [3] Tor has and is still the main method for someone to anonymously access the internet and the dark web. Anonymity has made …

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Password Crackers – Teaching Aid

Team Member: We created a website that gives you a deep dive into passwords and password crackers mainly hashcat and John the RipperWebsite link : https://keerthana200219.wixstudio.io/passwordcrackers

Post Quantum Cryptography: Kyber for Dummies

On August 13th 2024 NIST published the standards FIPS 203 (Kyber), FIPS 204 (Dilithium) and FIPS 205 (SPHINCS+) which are all quantum resistant algorithms that will soon replace those currently in use. The Kyber standard is a key encapsulation scheme which uses public key enabling and will replace the Diffie Hellman exchange. Dilithium and SPHINCS+ …

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