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Showing papers by "Mu-En Wu published in 2009"


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: Two variants of Rebalanced-RSA are introduced in which the public exponent e is much smaller than the modulus, thus reducing the encryption costs, while still maintaining low decryption costs.

15 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: This investigation focuses on designing a new RSA variant with balanced p and q, and short exponents d and e, to improve the security of an RSA variant against the Durfee & Nguyen's attack, and the other existing attacks.
Abstract: In some applications, a short private exponent d is chosen to improve the decryption or signing process for RSA public key cryptosystem. However, in a typical RSA, if the private exponent d is selected first, the public exponent e should be of the same order of magnitude as φ(N). Sun et al. devised three RSA variants using unbalanced prime factors p and q to lower the computational cost. Unfortunately, Durfee & Nguyen broke the illustrated instances of the first and third variants by solving small roots to trivariate modular polynomial equations. They also indicated that the instances with unbalanced primes p and q are more insecure than the instances with balanced p and q. This investigation focuses on designing a new RSA variant with balanced p and q, and short exponents d and e, to improve the security of an RSA variant against the Durfee & Nguyen's attack, and the other existing attacks. Furthermore, the proposed variant (Scheme A) is also extended to another RSA variant (Scheme B) in which p and q are balanced, and a trade-off between the lengths of d and e is enable. In addition, we provide the security analysis and feasibility analysis of the proposed schemes.

6 citations


Proceedings ArticleDOI
12 Sep 2009
TL;DR: A novel pair-wise key establishment scheme based on the combination of random key pre-distribution and pair- wise key establishment that achieves the merit of fully connectivity without increasing storage requirement of sensors.
Abstract: Random key pre-distribution scheme is a flexible key management scheme for wireless sensor networks. Recently, numerous related studies have been proposed. However, most of them have weaknesses. First of all, sensors require large storage to store keys in order to maintain high connectivity. Secondly, impact caused by compromised sensors cannot be completely eliminated. In this paper, a novel pair-wise key establishment scheme based on the combination is proposed. Impact of key exposure from compromised sensors can be ignored since the pair-wise key for each pair of sensors is unique. Most significantly, we achieve the merit of fully connectivity without increasing storage requirement of sensors.

5 citations