Elgamal implementation problems
Andrew Mattingly
andrew_mattingly at au1.ibm.com
Sun May 1 13:19:01 CEST 2011
Hi Angelo,
I can see two problems with your eg_encryption routine (eg_decryption has
no problems):
1. you should be computing c2 = h^k * M mod p, not c2 = h^k * g^M mod p
2. even if you disagree with point 1, you should take a modulus after the
final multiplication,
ie. after:
mpz_mul(cipherText->c2, tmp2, tmp);
do
mpz_mod(cipherText->c2, cipherText->c2, publicKey->p);
Hope this helps.
Kind regards
Andrew Mattingly.
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