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| | ElGamal encryption - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | As with all asymmetric key encryption algorithms, ElGamal consists of three components: the key generator, the encryption algorithm, and the decryption algorithm. |
 | | ElGamal's security rests, in part, on the difficulty of solving the discrete logarithm problem in |
 | | Note that ElGamal is malleable in an extreme way: for example, given a encryption (c_1, c_2) of some (possibly unknown) message m, one can easily construct an encryption (c_1, 2 \cdot c_2) of the message 2m. |
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