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A comparison of RSA and the Naccache-Stern public-key cryptosystem

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In September 1995, David Naccache and Jacques Stern proposed a new public key cryptosystem. We give an analysis of this cryptosystem and we make a comparison with the well-known RSA system.

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Cusick, T.W. (1997). A comparison of RSA and the Naccache-Stern public-key cryptosystem. In: Lomas, M. (eds) Security Protocols. Security Protocols 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1189. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62494-5_10

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