A public key cryptosystem based upon euclidean addition chains

  • Authors:
  • Fabien Herbaut;Pascal Véron

  • Affiliations:
  • Université du Sud Toulon-Var, IMATH, France, IUFM de Nice, Université de Nice;Université du Sud Toulon-Var, IMATH, France

  • Venue:
  • SETA'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Sequences and their applications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Addition chains are classical tools used to speed up exponentiation in cryptographic algorithms. In this paper we proposed to use a subset of addition chains, the Euclidean addition chains, in order to define a new public key cryptosystem.