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- From: sscalsk@nswc-wo.? (Stanley Scalsky)
- Subject: RSA alternative
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:43:00 GMT
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- Not to get off the facinating PGP legality thread but ...
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- In the Jan'93 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal there is an interesting
- article on LUC public-key encryption. From the article ...
-
- "RSA has dominiated public-key encryption for the last 15 years as research
- has failed to turn up a reliable alternative - until the advent of LUC.
- Based on the same difficult mathematical problem as RSA, LUC uses the
- calculation of Lucas functions instead of exponentiation.
-
- Becasue we're working in the area of mathematics, we can formally prove
- that LUC is a true alternative to RSA. Furthermore, we can show that a
- cipher based on LUC will be at least as efficient. ..."
-
- Anyway it seems timely. There is a good explanation in "How the Lucas
- Alternative Works" within the article and some code.
-
- See the article for further information.
-
- We now return to the catfight ...
-
- stan sscalsk@nswc-wo.navy.mil
-