Paper 2002/048 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2002/048 ↗
Towards a Uniform Description of Several Group Based Cryptographic Primitives
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.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
PDF- Category
- Public-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2002-04-19: last updated
- 2002-04-19: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2002/048
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2002/048,
author = {Maria Isabel Gonzalez Vasco and Consuelo Martinez and Rainer Steinwandt},
title = {Towards a Uniform Description of Several Group Based Cryptographic Primitives},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2002/048},
year = {2002},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2002/048}
}