A matricial public key cryptosystem with digital signature

  • Authors:
  • Rafael Alvarez;Francisco-Miguel Martinez;Jose-Francisco Vicent;Antonio Zamora

  • Affiliations:
  • Dpt. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain;Dpt. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain;Dpt. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain;Dpt. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We describe a new public key cryptosystem using block upper triangular matrices with elements in Zp, based on a generalization of the discrete logarithm problem over a finite group. The proposed cryptosystem is very efficient, requiring very few operations and also allows an ElGamal based digital signature scheme. The main benefit is that the security level is higher than other algorithms for the same key size.