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An Implementation Of The El Gamal Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem Over A Finite Field Of Characteristic P, Samuel Thomas Arslanian

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Since the earliest times, individuals and groups of individuals have been interested in communicating sensitive information in a manner which would guarantee that such information could not be arbitrarily received. Further, such information was to be received by select recipients and this required that a means of secure information transmission be found and employed. To these ends, methods of information encryption have ever since been sought and employed. The entire study and practice of this activity, cryptology, the science of message encryption and decryption, provides a framework for this thesis. In particular, the development of cryptology has been influenced by …