IACR News item: 20 November 2015
Fabrice Benhamouda, Javier Herranz, Marc Joye, and Benoît Libert
ePrint ReportThis paper revisits the original Goldwasser-Micali cryptosystem using 2^k-th power residue symbols. The so-obtained cryptosystems appear as a very natural generalization for k >= 2 (the case k = 1 corresponds exactly to the Goldwasser-Micali cryptosystem). Advantageously, they are efficient in both bandwidth and speed; in particular, they allow for fast decryption. Further, the cryptosystems described in this paper inherit the useful features of the original cryptosystem (like its homomorphic property) and are shown to be secure under a similar complexity assumption. As a prominent application, this paper describes an efficient lossy trapdoor function based thereon.
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