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Homework in C# from the Stanford "massive open online course" crypto-class.org which I did not finish -- extremely cool but extremely outside my field of professional interest.

  • BirthdayAttack.cs Apparently a birthday attack (finding two messages whose hashes collide). At the time I didn't deign to write any comment in this code. Apparently the program throws on success and returns silently on failure? Nice.
  • ManyTimesPad.cs An attack on an one-time pad that has been improperly used many times for different messages (many times pad) creating the vulnerability we exploit. The program isn't fully automatic: a first part outputs some partially decrypted (probably, relying on bytes having ASCII meaning) which a human has inspected (I have) to guess the plain text message, with which the rest of the program obtains the key and decrypts all messages encrypted with the same one.
  • WeakPRG.cs Apparently an attack on a weak pseudo-random generator, guessing the next number to be generated. Again I wrote no comments into this short code (with short course deadlines).
  • utils/Hex.cs Just two functions to transcode (encrypted) messages between byte arrays and string representations in hexadecimal -- as they were provided in the course. Some of the programs above depend on this.