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- From: Robert Jensen <jensen@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu>
- Subject: Are Lucas sequences an alternative to RSA?
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- The January 1993 Dr. Dobb's contains a description of the use of
- Lucas sequences as an alternative to RSA for public key encryption.
- I seem to recall a previous assertion in this group that the
- Lucas sequence system is just a disquised RSA. I don't recall any
- details of the assertion or any follow up discussion. Does anyone have
- an opinion on this alternative? The advertised advantage is that the
- encrypted product of two messages is not the product of the individually
- encrypted messages. This beats at least one attack on RSA.
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- Robert Jensen
- jensen@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
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