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Cryptography Algorithms

You're reading from   Cryptography Algorithms Explore New Algorithms in Zero-knowledge, Homomorphic Encryption, and Quantum Cryptography

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835080030
Length 410 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Author (1):
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Massimo Bertaccini Massimo Bertaccini
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: A Brief History and Outline of Cryptography FREE CHAPTER
2. Deep Dive into Cryptography 3. Section 2: Classical Cryptography (Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption)
4. Symmetric Encryption Algorithms 5. Asymmetric Encryption Algorithms 6. Hash Functions and Digital Signatures 7. Section 3: New Cryptography Algorithms and Protocols
8. Zero-Knowledge Protocols 9. New Inventions in Cryptography and Logical Attacks 10. Elliptic Curves 11. Homomorphic Encryption and Crypto Search Engine 12. Section 4: Quantum Cryptography
13. Quantum Cryptography 14. Quantum Search Algorithms and Quantum Computing 15. Other Books You May Enjoy
16. Index

Introducing the MB09 algorithm and an attempt at demonstrating Fermat’s Last Theorem

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 of 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 and its related technology: the Bitcoin blockchain.

Let’s examine how the first version of the MB09 algorithm worked:

  1. To do that, we’ll...
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