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Asymmetrical cryptographic communication method and portable object therefore

US6111952A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 25, 1997
Grant dateAug 29, 2000
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Expiry dateSep 25, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L2209/12
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to an asymmetric cryptographic communication process which establishes a correspondence between a first value (x) represented by n elements (x.sub.1, . . . , x.sub.n) of a ring (A) and a second value (y) represented by m elements (y.sub.1, . . . , y.sub.m) of this ring, n and m being integers greater than or equal to 2. The said correspondence is defined by multi variable public polynomials (P.sub.i) of A.sup.n+m+k ->A, with a low total degree, such that there are equations of the type P.sub.i (x.sub.1, . . . , x.sub.n ; y.sub.1, . . . , y.sub.m ; z.sub.1, . . . , z.sub.k)=0, where(z.sub.1, . . . , z.sub.k) are possible intermediate variables and k is an integer. At least the majority of the polynomials (P.sub.i) do not have the form T.sub.i (y.sub.1, . . . , y.sub.m)=S.sub.i (x.sub.1, . . . , x.sub.n), where the S.sub.i s would be polynomials with a total degree of 2 and the T.sub.i s would be polynomials with a total degree of 1.

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