An efficient probabilistic public-key cryptosystem over quadratic fields quotients

  • Authors:
  • Guilhem Castagnos

  • Affiliations:
  • DMI-XLIM, 123, avenue Albert-Thomas, 87060 Limoges cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Finite Fields and Their Applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present a new probabilistic cryptosystem working in quadratic fields quotients. Computation in such objects can be done efficiently with Lucas sequences which help to design a fast system. The security of the scheme is based on the LUC problem and its semantic security on a new decisional problem. This system appears to be an alternative to schemes based on the RSA primitive and has a full computational cost smaller than the El Gamal EC cryptosystem.