Chapter 8 Contents

8 Public-Key Encryption
8.1 Introduction

8.1.1 Basic principles
8.2 RSA public-key encryption

8.2.1 Description

8.2.2 Security of RSA

8.2.3 RSA encryption in practice
8.3 Rabin public-key encryption
8.4 ElGamal public-key encryption

8.4.1 Basic ElGamal encryption

8.4.2 Generalized ElGamal encryption
8.5 McEliece public-key encryption
8.6 Knapsack public-key encryption

8.6.1 Merkle-Hellman knapsack encryption

8.6.2 Chor-Rivest knapsack encryption
8.7 Probabilistic public-key encryption

8.7.1 Goldwasser-Micali probabilistic encryption

8.7.2 Blum-Goldwasser probabilistic encryption

8.7.3 Plaintext-aware encryption
8.8 Notes and further references

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