A new security proof for damgård’s elgamal

  • Authors:
  • Kristian Gjøsteen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Telematics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

  • Venue:
  • CT-RSA'06 Proceedings of the 2006 The Cryptographers' Track at the RSA conference on Topics in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We provide a new security proof for a variant of ElGamal proposed by Damgård, showing that it is secure against non-adaptive chosen ciphertext attack. Unlike previous security proofs for this cryptosystem, which rely on somewhat problematic assumptions, our underlying problem is similar to accepted problems such the Gap and Decision Diffie-Hellman problems.