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On the Uniformity of Distribution of the ElGamal Signature

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 We show that, under some natural conditions,the pairs (r,s) produced by the ElGamal signature scheme are uniformly distributed. In particular this implies that values of r and s are not correlated. The result is based on some new estimates of exponential sums.

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  1. Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia (e-mail: igor@comp.mq.edu.au), , , , , , AU

    Igor E. Shparlinski

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Received: May 17, 2000; revised version: August 23, 2001

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Shparlinski, I. On the Uniformity of Distribution of the ElGamal Signature. AAECC 13, 9–16 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002000100087

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