Top "Initialization-vector" questions

Secret vs. Non-secret Initialization Vector

Today I was doing some leisurely reading and stumbled upon Section 5.8 (on page 45) of Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes …

security encryption cryptography initialization-vector

Why does my AES Cipher throw an InvalidKeyException on init of DECRYPT_MODE

Why would this init succeed: Cipher AESCipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding"); AESCipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, secretKey, secRandom); …

java encryption aes secret-key initialization-vector

Java AES CTR IV and counter

I have tried to find the answer by myself looking here and searching elsewhere for quite a while, but I …

java encryption aes initialization-vector

CTR mode use of Initial Vector(IV)

from what I know, CTR mode doesn't use an Initial Vector. It just takes a counter, encrypts it with a …

java cryptography initialization-vector block-cipher

Numbers in initialization vector (IV) are all zeros

I'm having trouble understanding the following sentence : "the numbers in initialization vector (IV) are all zeros (not the ASCII character …

openssl initialization-vector