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Key generation
About: Key generation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6601 publications have been published within this topic receiving 111467 citations.
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23 Aug 1985
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a novel type of cryptographic scheme, which enables any pair of users to communicate securely and to verify each other's signatures without exchanging private or public keys, without keeping key directories, and without using the services of a third party.
Abstract: In this paper we introduce a novel type of cryptographic scheme, which enables any pair of users to communicate securely and to verify each other’s signatures without exchanging private or public keys, without keeping key directories, and without using the services of a third party. The scheme assumes the existence of trusted key generation centers, whose sole purpose is to give each user a personalized smart card when he first joins the network. The information embedded in this card enables the user to sign and encrypt the messages he sends and to decrypt and verify the messages he receives in a totally independent way, regardless of the identity of the other party. Previously issued cards do not have to be updated when new users join the network, and the various centers do not have to coordinate their activities or even to keep a user list. The centers can be closed after all the cards are issued, and the network can continue to function in a completely decentralized way for an indefinite period.
7,587 citations
4 Jun 2007
TL;DR: This work presents PUF designs that exploit inherent delay characteristics of wires and transistors that differ from chip to chip, and describes how PUFs can enable low-cost authentication of individual ICs and generate volatile secret keys for cryptographic operations.
Abstract: Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are innovative circuit primitives that extract secrets from physical characteristics of integrated circuits (ICs). We present PUF designs that exploit inherent delay characteristics of wires and transistors that differ from chip to chip, and describe how PUFs can enable low-cost authentication of individual ICs and generate volatile secret keys for cryptographic operations.
2,286 citations
Proceedings Article•
1 Jan 2007
TL;DR: Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are innovative circuit primitives that extract secrets from physical characteristics of integrated circuits (ICs).
Abstract: Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are innovative circuit primitives that extract secrets from physical characteristics of integrated circuits (ICs). We present PUF designs that exploit inherent delay characteristics of wires and transistors that differ from chip to chip, and describe how PUFs can enable low-cost authentication of individual ICs and generate volatile secret keys for cryptographic operations.
2,276 citations
30 Nov 2003
TL;DR: In this article, the concept of certificateless public key cryptography (CL-PKC) was introduced and made concrete, which does not require certificates to guarantee the authenticity of public keys.
Abstract: This paper introduces and makes concrete the concept of certificateless public key cryptography (CL-PKC), a model for the use of public key cryptography which avoids the inherent escrow of identity-based cryptography and yet which does not require certificates to guarantee the authenticity of public keys The lack of certificates and the presence of an adversary who has access to a master key necessitates the careful development of a new security model We focus on certificateless public key encryption (CL-PKE), showing that a concrete pairing-based CL-PKE scheme is secure provided that an underlying problem closely related to the Bilinear Diffie-Hellman Problem is hard
2,193 citations
Patent•
IBM1
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a method and apparatus of securely providing data to a user's system, where the data is encrypted so as to only be decryptable by a data decrypting key.
Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus of securely providing data to a user's system. The data is encrypted so as to only be decryptable by a data decrypting key, the data decrypting key being encrypted using a first public key, and the encrypted data being accessible to the user's system, the method comprising the steps of: transferring the encrypted data decrypting key to a clearing house that possesses a first private key, which corresponds to the first public key; decrypting the data decrypting key using the first private key; re-encrypting the data decrypting key using a second public key; transferring the re-encrypted data decrypting key to the user's system, the user's system possessing a second private key, which corresponds to the second public key; and decrypting the re-encrypted data decrypting key using the second private key.
1,610 citations
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| 2024 | 88 |
| 2023 | 140 |
| 2022 | 211 |
| 2021 | 358 |