Primality Testing and Integer Factorization in Public-Key Cryptography

ISBN-13: 9780387772677 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 371 str.

Song Y. Yan

Opis

The Primality Testing Problem (PTP) has now proved to be solvable in deterministic polynomial-time (P) by the AKS (Agrawal-Kayal-Saxena) algorithm, whereas the Integer Factorization Problem (IFP) still remains unsolvable in (P). There is still no polynomial-time algorithm for IFP. Many practical public-key cryptosystems and protocols such as RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) rely their security on computational intractability of IFP. Primality Testing and Integer Factorization in Public Key Cryptography, Second Edition, provides a survey of recent progress in primality testing and integer factorization, with implications to factoring based public key cryptography. Notable new features are the comparison of Rabin-Miller probabilistic test in RP, Atkin-Morain elliptic curve test in ZPP and AKS deterministic test. This volume is designed for advanced level students in computer science and mathematics, and as a secondary text or reference book; suitable for practitioners and researchers in industry. First edition was very positively reviewed by Prof Samuel Wagstaff at Purdue University in AMS Mathematical Reviews (See MR2028480 2004j:11148), and by Professor J.T. Ayuso of University of Simon Bolivar in the European Mathematical Society s review journal Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (see Zbl 1048.11103)."

Recenzje

From the reviews of the second edition:

"The well-written and self-contained second edition 'is designed for a professional audience composed of researchers practitioners in industry.' In addition, 'this book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level students in computer science, mathematics, and engineering,' as it contains about 300 problems. ... Overall ... 'this monograph provides a survey of recent progress in Primality Testing and Integer Factorization, with implications in factoring-based Public Key Cryptography.'" (Hao Wang, ACM Computing Reviews, April, 2009)

"This is the second edition of a book originally published in 2004. ... I used it as a reference in preparing lectures for an advanced cryptography course for undergraduates, and it proved to be a wonderful source for a general description of the algorithms. ... the book will be a valuable addition to any good reference library on cryptography and number theory ... . It contains descriptions of all the main algorithms, together with explanations of the key ideas behind them." (S. C. Coutinho, SIGACT News, April, 2012)

Spis treści

Preface to the Second Edition.- Preface to the First Edition.- Number-Theoretic Preliminaries.- Problems in Number Theory. Divisibility Properties. Euclid's Algorithm and Continued Fractions. Arithmetic Functions. Linear Congruences. Quadratic Congruences. Primitive Roots and Power Residues. Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves. Chapter Notes and Further Reading.- Primality Testing and Prime Generation.- Computing with Numbers and Curves. Riemann Zeta and Dirichlet L Functions. Rigorous Primality Tests. Compositeness and Pseudoprimality Tests. Lucas Pseudoprimality Test. Elliptic Curve Primality Tests. Superpolynomial-Time Tests. Polynomial-Time Tests. Primality Tests for Special Numbers. Prime Number Generation. Chapter Notes and Further Reading.- Integer Factorization and Discrete Logarithms.- Introduction. Simple Factoring Methods. Elliptic Curve Method (ECM). General Factoring Congruence. Continued FRACtion Method (CFRAC). Quadratic Sieve (QS). Number Field Sieve (NFS). Quantum Factoring Algorithm. Discrete Logarithms. kth Roots. Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms. Chapter Notes and Further Reading.- Number-Theoretic Cryptography.- Public-Key Cryptography. RSA Cryptosystem. Rabin Cryptography. Quadratic Residuosity Cryptography. Discrete Logarithm Cryptography. Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Zero-Knowledge Techniques. Deniable Authentication. Non-Factoring Based Cryptography. Chapter Notes and Further Reading.- Bibliography.- Index.- About the Author.

Blurb

Although the Primality Testing Problem (PTP) has been proved to be solvable in deterministic polynomial-time (P) in 2002 by Agrawal, Kayal and Saxena, the Integer Factorization Problem (IFP) still remains unsolvable in P. The security of many practical Public-Key Cryptosystems and Protocols such as RSA (invented by Rivest, Shamir and Adleman) relies on the computational intractability of IFP. This monograph provides a survey of recent progress in Primality Testing and Integer Factorization, with implications to factoring-based Public Key Cryptography.

Notable features of this second edition are the several new sections and more than 100 new pages that are added. These include a new section in Chapter 2 on the comparison of Rabin-Miller probabilistic test in RP, Atkin-Morain elliptic curve test in ZPP and AKS deterministic test in P; a new section in Chapter 3 on recent work in quantum factoring; and a new section in Chapter 4 on post-quantum cryptography.

To make the book suitable as an advanced undergraduate and/or postgraduate text/reference, about ten problems at various levels of difficulty are added at the end of each section, making about 300 problems in total contained in the book; most of the problems are research-oriented with prizes ordered by individuals or organizations to a total amount over five million US dollars.

Primality Testing and Integer Factorization in Public Key Cryptography is designed for practitioners and researchers in industry and graduate-level students in computer science and mathematics.