Optimal-resilience, proactive, public-key cryptographic system and method
CA 2286732 A1 · Owner: Certco, Inc. · Inventors: Yung, Marcel M.; Frankel, Yair
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Proactive robust threshold schemes are presented for general "homomorphictype" public key systems, as well as optimized systems for the RSA function. Proactive security employs dynamic memory refreshing and enables us to tolerate a "mobile adversary" that dynamically corrupts the components of the systems (perhaps all of them) as long as the number of corruptions (faults) is bounded within a time period. The systems are optimal-resilience. Namely they withstand any corruption of minority of servers at any time-period by an active (malicious) adversary (i.e. any subset less than half. Also disclosed are general optimal-resilience public key systems which are "robust threshold" …
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- Filed April 24, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 24, 2018.
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