Title:

Symmetric Public-Key Encryption

Author(s):

Galil, Zvi
Landau, Gad M.
Yung, Moti

Date:

1985

Type:

Technical reports

Department:

Computer Science

Permanent URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:11707

Series:

Columbia University Computer Science Technical Reports

Part Number:

CUCS-180-85

Publisher:

Department of Computer Science, Columbia University

Publisher Location:

New York

Abstract:

Public-key encryption would seem to be inherently asymmetric. in that only messages sent to a user can be encrypted using his public key. We demonstrate that the use of interactive protocols for sending encrypted messages enables a symmetric use of public keys; we give cryptographic protocols for the following tasks: 1. Probabilistic encryption, using the same public key, both of messages that are sent to a particular user as well as of messages that the user sends to others, without compromising the key. We propose a public-key cryptosystem based on these protocols which has only one key, owned by a cryptographic server. 2. Authentication both of the sender and of the receiver of a probabilistically encrypted message. 3. Probabilistic encryption which is provably secure against both chosen-message and chosen-ciphertext attack.

Subject(s):

Computer science

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