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Showing papers on "Plaintext-aware encryption published in 1984"


Proceedings ArticleDOI
Neal R. Wagner1
01 Apr 1984
TL;DR: The use of undecidable problems in constructing public-key cryptosystems must still be in NP, but intuitive arguments suggest that this approach might be a reasonable alternative to the use of NP-complete problems.
Abstract: This article suggests the use of undecidable problems in constructing public-key cryptosystems. Any such system must still be in NP, but intuitive arguments suggest that this approach might be a reasonable alternative to the use of NP-complete problems. A general approach based on the undecidable word problem for groups is discussed, though without enough detail to evaluate a specific implementation. The resulting cryptosystem, if successful, would be a randomized public-key encryption procedure with infinitely many ciphertexts corresponding to each plaintext. Also , it is possible that a specific implementation could have infinitely many secret keys corresponding to one public key.

7 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: An analysis of the Williams public-key encryption scheme from the point of view of (un) concealability of messages is presented.
Abstract: A (plaintext) message is said to be unconcealable if the encrypted message is the same as the original plaintext message. An analysis of the Williams public-key encryption scheme from the point of view of (un) concealability of messages is presented.

1 citations