Author(s)

Boris S. Verkhovsky

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A hybrid cryptographic system providing digital authentication is described and analyzed in this paper. The proposed cryptosystem incorporates three features: complexity of the discrete logarithm problem, complexity of integer factorization of a product of two large primes and a combination of symmetric and asymmetric keys. In order to make the cryptosystem less vulnerable to cryptanalytic attacks a concept of digital entanglements is introduced. As a result, the proposed cryptographic system has four layers (entanglement-encryption- decryption-disentanglement). It is shown that in certain instances the proposed communication cryptocol is many times faster than the RSA cryptosystem. Examples provided in the paper illustrate details of the proposed authentication cryptocol.

Crypto-Immunity, Cybersecurity, Digital Authentication, Array Entanglements, Multi-Layer

B. S. Verkhovsky, "Hybrid Authentication Cybersystem Based on Discrete Logarithm, Factorization and Array Entanglements," International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, Vol. 3 No. 7, 2010, pp. 579-584. doi: 10.4236/ijcns.2010.37077.