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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

Analysis of homomorphic encryption and its implications

Analyzing the partial homomorphic scheme proposed for RSA in the preceding section, we can see an interesting correspondence between the operations on cryptograms (data expressed in clear) and messages (data in blind).

This correspondence is just what we call homomorphism.

Now, the problem is that RSA, just like most of the algorithms explored until now, is partially homomorphic and can only represent some mathematical operations, such as multiplication or addition. The real difficulty is finding an efficient algorithm that represents all the mathematical and Boolean operations together.

Another simple example (case study) of how a form of homomorphism can be represented is performed by addition.

Let's take [A] and [B], two secret values that give [C] as their sum:

A + B ≡ C (mod Z)

Now, let's take two encrypted value correspondents respective to A and B.

For example, the encrypted values...

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