Cryptography Tricks

Here are some cryptography tricks that i've learned with some important people and that helped made this page. They helped a lot with the Keys and Seeds page construction. Use them wisely :)

AES-CTR tricks

• Recovery of partial plaintext with two ciphertexts encrypted with same key and iv by knowing where zeroes (\x00) are located
• This trick was used in the recovery of the ebootrom keys
• Xoring these ciphertexts will reveal plaintext where in both locations there are zeroes in one place and plaintext in the other

AES-CBC tricks

• The iv of a CBC operation is always the previous 0x10 block, UNLESS it's the starting operation. in this case it is specified by the end-user

AES-ECB tricks

• If cbc is used on a block and if the attacker knows where 16 bytes of zeroes are located in known plaintext with given ciphertext location, he can use AES-ECB with the guessed key on that location. if there is a match of the previous 16 bytes as result, the attacker automatically knows the guessed key is the correct key
• this means that the first 0x10 bytes of the ciphered text will be equal to the second 0x10 bytes of the plaintext, if the plaintext is supposed to have zeroes.