re: elgamal encryption question

"jrandom" <auto97841-revL73yDgGBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:10:20 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.invisiblenet.iip.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Current implementations, as well as a test with bouncycastle.org's

> elgamal encryption engine, shows that using a 512byte block /usually/

> works, but sometimes fails to decrypt correctly.

to clarify: it fails based on the public key in question, not on the
ciphertext.  if I loop with the same key it either always fails or always
succeeds, but if I loop with different keys each time, it fails sometimes.

-me



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