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Article #2416RSA alternative
From: Stanley Scalsky
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:43
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:43
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Not to get off the facinating PGP legality thread but ... In the Jan'93 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal there is an interesting article on LUC public-key encryption. From the article ... "RSA has dominiated public-key encryption for the last 15 years as research has failed to turn up a reliable alternative - until the advent of LUC. Based on the same difficult mathematical problem as RSA, LUC uses the calculation of Lucas functions instead of exponentiation. Becasue we're working in the area of mathematics, we can formally prove that LUC is a true alternative to RSA. Furthermore, we can show that a cipher based on LUC will be at least as efficient. ..." Anyway it seems timely. There is a good explanation in "How the Lucas Alternative Works" within the article and some code. See the article for further information. We now return to the catfight ... stan sscalsk@nswc-wo.navy.mil
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!relay!relay!sscalsk From: sscalsk@nswc-wo.? (Stanley Scalsky) Subject: RSA alternative Message-ID: <SSCALSK.92Dec18104300@nswc-wo.?> Sender: news@relay.nswc.navy.mil Organization: NSWC White Oak Distribution: sci Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:43:00 GMT Lines: 23