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A design of secure and efficient public key encryption schemes under weaker computational assumptions has been regarded as an important and challenging task. As far as the ElGamal-type encryption is concerned, some variants of the original ElGamal encryption scheme whose security depends on weaker computational assumption have been proposed: Although the security of the original ElGamal encryption is based on the decisional Diffie-Hellman assumption (DDH-A), the security of a recent scheme, such as Pointcheval’s ElGamal encryption variant, is based on the weaker assumption, the computational Diffie-Hellman assumption (CDH-A). In this paper, we propose a length-saving ElGamal encryption variant whose security is based on CDH-A and analyze its security in the random oracle model. The proposed scheme is length-efficient which provides a shorter ciphertext than that of Pointcheval’s scheme and provably secure against the chosen-ciphertext attack.
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Baek, J., Lee, B., Kim, K. (2000). Secure Length-Saving ElGamal Encryption under the Computational Diffie-Hellman Assumption. In: Dawson, E.P., Clark, A., Boyd, C. (eds) Information Security and Privacy. ACISP 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1841. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10718964_5
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