摘要 |
Hashing onto elements of a group, in particular onto points of an elliptic curve. An input message is run through a "regular" hashing algorithm, such as e.g. SHA-1 and MD5, and used as a scalar in multiplication with an element of the group. The result is necessarily also an element of the group. An advantage is that the security of the hashing algorithm is the same as that of the underlying "regular" hashing algorithm. Also provided is an apparatus. |