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Cryptography Algorithms

You're reading from   Cryptography Algorithms A guide to algorithms in blockchain, quantum cryptography, zero-knowledge protocols, and homomorphic encryption

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789617139
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Massimo Bertaccini Massimo Bertaccini
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: A Brief History and Outline of Cryptography
2. Chapter 1: Deep Diving into Cryptography FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2: Classical Cryptography (Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption)
4. Chapter 2: Introduction to Symmetric Encryption 5. Chapter 3: Asymmetric Encryption 6. Chapter 4: Introducing Hash Functions and Digital Signatures 7. Section 3: New Cryptography Algorithms and Protocols
8. Chapter 5: Introduction to Zero-Knowledge Protocols 9. Chapter 6: New Algorithms in Public/Private Key Cryptography 10. Chapter 7: Elliptic Curves 11. Chapter 8: Quantum Cryptography 12. Section 4: Homomorphic Encryption and the Crypto Search Engine
13. Chapter 9: Crypto Search Engine 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing the MB09 algorithm

First, we will start with some considerations regarding the algorithm and reintroduce Fermat's Last Theorem. The first time I presented MB09, it was as an encryption algorithm, but effectively it is much more a protocol for digital payments. As I have already mentioned, while blockchain and cryptocurrency were not yet well known, I developed MB09 as an encryption/decryption algorithm to exchange a message between two actors. Many years later, I worked on the algorithm, taking it as the basis for a fully homomorphic encryption system and creating MB23, which was a fully homomorphic algorithm. Eventually, in 2020, it was turned into a new version, called MBXX, to overcome the consensus problem proposed by Satoshi Nakamoto.

Let's examine how the first version of MB09 worked. To do that, we'll recall Fermat's Last Theorem:

a^n + b^n = z^n 

Here, the (n) exponents represent all the sets of positive integers.

This equation,...

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