Submitting Campus
Prescott
Student Status
Undergraduate
Class
College of Security and Intelligence
Advisor Name
Paul Hriljac
Abstract/Description
This study is an attempt to show a basic mathematical usage of the concepts behind digital signatures and to provide a simple approach and understanding to cracking basic digital signatures. The approach takes on simple C programming of the ElGamal digital signature to identify some limits that can be encountered and provide considerations for making more complex code. Additionally, there is a literature review of the ElGamal digital signature and the brute force attack.
The research component of this project provides a list of possible ways to crack the basic implementations and classifies the different approaches that could be taken to break the signature. One of those methods, brute force, is taken and applied to effectively break the math behind the digital signature model that was used. Analysis of the brute force attack is provided to show the trends with in the primitive roots. Countermeasures are then developed to show effectiveness and recommendations are included on how to develop the data more effectively.
Document Type
Undergraduate Research
Publication/Presentation Date
10-2017
Scholarly Commons Citation
Laryoshyna, V. (2017). Simple implementation of an ElGamal Digital Signature and a Brute Force attack on it. , (). Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/student-works/61
