Abstract:The amount of information stored in databases is constantly increasing. Databases contain multiple records, each of them divided in several data fields. And some of these fields may contain sensitive information, so there is a need to prevent free access to it. Traditionally, cryptography has been used to conceal this kind of information, but conventional cryptography has the problem that, for queries that need access to a specific field for all the records, it requires the decryption of the entire data field. Order preserving encryption ensures that comparing encrypted data returns the same result than comparing the original data. This permits to order encrypted data without the need of decryption. In this way, databases using this kind of cryptosystems admit encrypted record fields while still allowing searches and range queries. In this paper, we propose an order preserving symmetric encryption scheme whose encryption function is recursively constructed. Starting with the trivial order preserving encryption function, which is the identity, a function is constructed in a series of steps by making it more and more complex until the the desired security level is reached. The security of the proposed cryptosystem is also analyzed.
This paper is devoted to the study of the volcanoes of ℓ-isogenies of elliptic curves over a finite field, focusing on their height as well as on the location of curves across its different levels. The core of the paper lies on the relationship between the ℓ-Sylow subgroup of an elliptic curve and the level of the volcano where it is placed. The particular case ℓ = 3 is studied in detail, giving an algorithm to determine the volcano of 3-isogenies of a given elliptic curve. Experimental results are also provided.
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