One-way trap door functions based on the Boolean satisfiability problem

  • Authors:
  • Sarita Singh;T. J. Mathew

  • Affiliations:
  • Infosys Fellow, National Centre for Software Technology, Juhu, Mumbai - 400 049;Professor (Information Tech.), Institute of Management, SNDT, Mumbai - 400 049

  • Venue:
  • ICCC '02 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Computer communication
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present a new proposal for a trap-door one-way function, from which we derive a public-key encryption algorithm. The security of this new algorithm is related to the difficulty of finding an assignment that satisfies a given set of Boolean expressions, providing a possible alternative to existing public-key encryption and digital signature algorithms.