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Cryptanalysis of the enhanced ElGamal's signature scheme

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Cryptography: Policy and Algorithms (CPA 1995)

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Recently, He and Kiesler proposed a new signature scheme whose security is based on both factorization and discrete logarithms to enhance the security of ElGamal's scheme. In this paper, we show that He-Kiesler signature scheme is insecure under the Known-Signature attack.

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  1. J. He and T. Kiesler ” Enhancing The Security of ElGamal's Signature Scheme”, IEE Proc.-Comput.Digit.Tech., Vol. 141, No.4, pp. 249–252, July 1994.

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Ed Dawson Jovan Golić

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Laih, CS., Kuo, WC. (1996). Cryptanalysis of the enhanced ElGamal's signature scheme. In: Dawson, E., Golić, J. (eds) Cryptography: Policy and Algorithms. CPA 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1029. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0032361

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