Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Degenerate Key


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The result was   merge into Differential cryptanalysis. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 04:34, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Degenerate Key

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Cannot find sources in Google showing "Degenerate Keys" in the context of RSA public key encryption. Fails WP:N (no third party sources). A v  N  16:59, 18 May 2009 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:02, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge into Differential cryptanalysis and/or Degeneracy_(mathematics). It might be useful as a redirect/search term.  Key Degeneracy is an important concept in differential cryptanalysis. Gigs (talk) 20:12, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Merge and rd to Differential cryptanalysis; a minor point on its own and not worth breaking out as a separate article. JJL (talk) 00:15, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect - Is it specific to differential cryptanalysis? What about to Cryptography since null keys exist in other crytposystems, or is this term specific to public key, or even to RSA? I wasn't aware that differential cryptanalysis was directly related to public key encryption (I understood the term to be specific to known plaintext attacks against symmetric systems). Shadowjams (talk) 06:59, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Degeneracy in the broadest sense could be widely applicable, however, differential analysis has a special interest in it. It's definitely not RSA specific.  Here is a paper that relates to degeneracy and differential analysis.   Gigs (talk) 07:10, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that's exactly what I wondered. Differential cryptanalysis is a good choice (and maybe the RSA specific language should be left out of whatever merge is done). Shadowjams (talk) 07:12, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * A google book search reveals a lot of references, however they are all in relation to public key cryptography. In fact, I don't see any references that cover it in a differential cryptography setting. A merge to either Cryptography or Public key cryptography is better. Shadowjams (talk) 21:09, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge per above. J I P  | Talk 06:51, 25 May 2009 (UTC)


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