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NTRU: A ring-based public key cryptosystem

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We describe NTRU, a new public key cryptosystem. NTRU features reasonably short, easily created keys, high speed, and low memory requirements. NTRU encryption and decryption use a mixing system suggested by polynomial algebra combined with a clustering principle based on elementary probability theory. The security of the NTRU cryptosystem comes from the interaction of the polynomial mixing system with the independence of reduction modulo two relatively prime integers p and q.

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  • Lattice Reduction
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    Hoffstein, J., Pipher, J., Silverman, J.H. (1998). NTRU: A ring-based public key cryptosystem. In: Buhler, J.P. (eds) Algorithmic Number Theory. ANTS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1423. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0054868

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