Semirings as Building Blocks in Cryptography

Semirings as Building Blocks in Cryptography
by: Mariana Durcheva
Released: 2020
ISBN-13: 9781527541702
Pages: 131
Language: English
Pages: PDF
Size: 10 Mb
Book Description
Semirings as an algebraic structure have been known since 1934,but remained unapplied for mathematical purposes for a long time. It has only been in the past decade that they have been used in cryptography. The advantage of (additively) idempotent semirings is that the additive operation does not have an inverse,which can help in preventing the breakage of a cryptosystem. This book describes a number of cryptographic protocols,as well as the hard mathematical problems on which their security is based. It will appeal to cryptographers and specialists in applied algebra