Generating Large Instances of the Gong-Harn Cryptosystem

  • Authors:
  • Kenneth J. Giuliani;Guang Gong

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In 1999, Gong and Harn proposed a new cryptosystem based on third-order characteristic sequences over finite fields. This paper gives an efficient method to generate instances of this cryptosystem over large finite fields. The method first finds a "good" prime p to work with and then constructs the sequence to ensure that it has the desired period. This method has been implemented in C++ using NTL [7] and so timing results are presented.