Telegraphy – Systems – Printing
Patent
1977-12-14
1983-09-20
Cangialosi, Sal
Telegraphy
Systems
Printing
178 2211, H04K 100, H04I 904
Patent
active
044058292
ABSTRACT:
A cryptographic communications system and method. The system includes a communications channel coupled to at least one terminal having an encoding device and to at least one terminal having a decoding device. A message-to-be-transferred is enciphered to ciphertext at the encoding terminal by first encoding the message as a number M in a predetermined set, and then raising that number to a first predetermined power (associated with the intended receiver) and finally computing the remainder, or residue, C, when the exponentiated number is divided by the product of two predetermined prime numbers (associated with the intended receiver). The residue C is the ciphertext. The ciphertext is deciphered to the original message at the decoding terminal in a similar manner by raising the ciphertext to a second predetermined power (associated with the intended receiver), and then computing the residue, M', when the exponentiated ciphertext is divided by the product of the two predetermined prime numbers associated with the intended receiver. The residue M' corresponds to the original encoded message M.
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"New Directions in Cryptography", Diffie et al., IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. IT-22, No. 6, Nov. 1976, pp. 644-654.
"Theory of Numbers" Stewart, MacMillan Co., 1952, pp. 133-135.
"Diffie et al., Multi-User Cryptographic Techniques", AFIPS. Conference Proceedings, vol. 45, pp. 109-112, Jun. 8, 1976.
Adleman Leonard M.
Rivest Ronald L.
Shamir Adi
Cangialosi Sal
Horn, Jr. Robert J.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Smith, Jr. Arthur A.
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