An ElGamal-Like Cryptosystem for Enciphering Large Messages

  • Authors:
  • M. S. Hwang;C. C. Chang;K. F. Hwang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In practice, we usually require two cryptosystems, an asymmetric one and a symmetric one, to encrypt a large confidential message. The asymmetric cryptosystem is used to deliver secret key $SK$, while the symmetric cryptosystem is used to encrypt a large confidential message with the secret key $SK$. In this article, we propose a simple cryptosystem which allows a large confidential message to be encrypted efficiently. Our scheme is based on the Diffie-Hellman distribution scheme, together with the ElGamal cryptosystem.