El Gamal algorithm
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El Gamal algorithm
A popular asymmetric encryption algorithm invented by Taher El Gamal in 1985. Named after its author and based on discrete logarithms, El Gamal is used for encryption and digital signatures. See public key cryptography.Copyright © 1981-2025 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.
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Their scheme is based on the
ElGamal encryption construction and it is CPA secure under the Decisional Diffie-Hellman assumption.
Jakobsson, "Security of signed
ElGamal encryption," in Advances in cryptology--ASIACRYPT2000, vol.
The security of the above encryption scheme is essentially similar to the security of the well-known
Elgamal encryption scheme [4].
The classical
ELGamal encryption scheme is one of the most widely used public-key cryptosystems.
The
ElGamal encryption scheme consists of three algorithms, for initialization, encryption, and decryption, respectively.
Vallent et.al [10] proposed an efficient public key encryption with keyword search protocol which is pairing-free and is resilient against offline keyword guessing attack based on the Diffie-Hellman problem and the
ElGamal encryption scheme in 2014.
Universal Re-Encryption is based on the
ElGamal encryption scheme.
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