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Towards a Uniform Description of Several Group Based Cryptographic Primitives
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Abstract: | The public key cryptosystems $MST_1$ and $MST_2$ make use of certain kinds of factorizations of finite groups. We show that generalizing such factorizations to infinite groups allows a uniform description of several proposed cryptographic primitives. In particular, a generalization of $MST_2$ can be regarded as a unifying framework for several suggested cryptosystems including the ElGamal public key system, a public key system based on braid groups and the MOR cryptosystem. |
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2002-11572, title={Towards a Uniform Description of Several Group Based Cryptographic Primitives}, booktitle={IACR Eprint archive}, keywords={public-key cryptography / logarithmic signatures, group based cryptography, braid groups, MOR schemes}, url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2002/048}, note={ mvasco@orion.ciencias.uniovi.es 11793 received 16 Apr 2002}, author={Maria Isabel Gonzalez Vasco and Consuelo MartÃnez and Rainer Steinwandt}, year=2002 }