Question

A 16-round Feistel network is used in an algorithm that divides these things into their namesake subarrays. That method by Bruce Schneier has a less well-known successor algorithm named Twofish, where the size of these things is twice as big as the block size. A general protocol of an algorithm named for these things uses a generator g to construct a finite cyclic group of order (*) n, which results in the value of these things being g to the power of the quantity a times b. That algorithm named for these things, which involves taking (-5[1])discrete logarithms, is named after Diffie and Hellman. Carmichael’s totient function derives the “private” form of these objects in RSA (10[1])decryption. For 10 points, name these often-secret cryptographic pieces of information, used to encode or decode data. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: keys [accept keywords; accept private keys; accept Diffie-Hellman key exchange; accept key size; accept subkey-arrays]
<Ezra Santos, Other Science>
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Leo LawUF BUF A94-5
Thomas TibbettsUCFUF C11410
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2024 Penn Bowl UNC10/26/2024Y3100%0%0%102.33
2024 Penn Bowl Florida10/26/2024Y2100%0%50%123.00
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y4100%0%25%111.25
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024Y5100%20%20%95.60
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley11/02/2024Y2100%0%0%90.50
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite11/02/2024Y3100%0%67%117.00
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU11/02/2024Y4100%0%25%113.75
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024Y8100%0%25%114.50
2024 Penn Bowl Texas11/02/2024Y2100%0%50%117.50