Paillier cryptosystem
Sistema criptográfico Paillier
- Date
- 1999 · confidence high
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Pascal Paillier
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Probabilistic asymmetric encryption system devised by Pascal Paillier, based on the difficulty of computing n-th residue classes; its additive homomorphic property allows encrypted values to be summed without decryption.
What it led to
- Electronic voting with encrypted tallying
- Privacy-preserving machine learning
- Foundation for later homomorphic encryption schemes