In this article, we formalize operations of points on an elliptic curve over GF(p). Elliptic curve cryptography [7], whose security is based on a difficulty of discrete logarithm problem of elliptic curves, is important for information security. We prove that the two operations of points: compellProjCo and addellProjCo are unary and binary operations of a point over the elliptic curve.
We consider digit expansions with an endomorphism of an Abelian group. In such a numeral system, the -NAF condition (each block of consecutive digits contains at most one nonzero) is shown to minimise the Hamming weight over all expansions with the same digit set if and only if it fulfills the subadditivity condition (the sum of every two expansions of weight admits an optimal -NAF).This result is then applied to imaginary quadratic bases, which are used for scalar multiplication in elliptic...
Exploitation characteristics behaves as a decreasing valors factor (DVF) which can be connected with degradation processes. It is a structure that consists of independent attributes which represent situations generally connected with a given exploitation factor. The multi-attribute structure contains attributes directly and indirectly referring to the main factor. Attribute states, by definition, can only maintain or decrease their values. Such situations are met in security, reliability, exploitation,...
A totally involutional, highly scalable PP-1 cipher is proposed, evaluated and discussed. Having very low memory requirements and using only simple and fast arithmetic operations, the cipher is aimed at platforms with limited resources, e.g., smartcards. At the core of the cipher's processing is a carefully designed S-box. The paper discusses in detail all aspects of PP-1 cipher design including S-box construction, permutation and round key scheduling. The quality of the PP-1 cipher is also evaluated...
A secret sharing scheme is ideal if the size of each share is equal to the size of the secret. Brickell and Davenport showed that the access structure of an ideal secret sharing scheme is determined by a matroid. Namely, the minimal authorized subsets of an ideal secret sharing scheme are in correspondence with the circuits of a matroid containing a fixed point. In this case, we say that the access structure is a matroid port. It is known that, for an access structure, being a matroid port is not...
Fehr et al. (2010) proposed the first sender-equivocable encryption scheme secure against chosen-ciphertext attacks (NCCCA) and proved that NC-CCA security implies security against selective opening chosen-ciphertext attacks (SO-CCA). The NC-CCA security proof of the scheme relies on security against substitution attacks of a new primitive, the “crossauthentication code”. However, the security of the cross-authentication code cannot be guaranteed when all the keys used in the code are exposed. Our...
In this paper, we determine all the normal forms of Hermitian matrices over finite group rings , where , is a commutative -group with order . Furthermore, using the normal forms of Hermitian matrices, we study the structure of unitary group over through investigating its BN-pair and order. As an application, we construct a Cartesian authentication code and compute its size parameters.
This report examines important issues pertaining to the different ways of affecting the information security of file objects under information attacks through methods of compression. Accordingly, the report analyzes the three-way relationships which may exist among a selected set of attacks, methods and objects. Thus, a methodology is proposed for evaluation of information security, and a coefficient of information security is created. With respects to this coefficient, using different criteria...
In secret sharing, different access structures have different difficulty degrees for acceding to the secret. We give a numerical measure of how easy or how difficult is to recover the secret, depending only on the structure itself and not on the particular scheme used for realizing it. We derive some consequences.
We investigate the lattice of machine invariant classes. This is an infinite completely distributive lattice but it is not a Boolean lattice. The length and width of it is c. We show the subword complexity and the growth function create machine invariant classes.
We connect the discrete logarithm problem over prime fields in the safe prime case to the logarithmic derivative.