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What is Paillier Algorithm

Chapter 12
Handbook of Research on Securing Cloud-Based Databases with Biometric Applications
The Paillier cryptosystem, named after and invented by Pascal Paillier in 1999, is a probabilistic asymmetric algorithm for public key cryptography. The problem of computing n-the residue classes is believed to be computationally difficult. The decisional composite residuesity assumption is the intractability hypothesis upon which this cryptosystem is based. The scheme is an additive homomorphic cryptosystem; this means that, given only the public-key and the encryption of m 1 and m 2 , one can compute the encryption of m 1 + m 2 .
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Biometric: Authentication and Service to Cloud
Ajay Rawat (University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India) and Shivani Gambhir (University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6559-0.ch012
Abstract
Cloud computing lacks control over physical and logical aspects of the system, which imposes profound changes in security and privacy procedure; hence, it needs a high level of security. Currently, many researchers and developments are being done to provide client service-level agreements regarding security issues. These researchers are attracted towards biometrics and its security applications, since it is based on biometric traits, thus providing a high level of security. Due to biometrics' benefits and cloud advantages, the collaboration of cloud and biometrics have open up wide areas this field. This chapter discusses some case studies of integration of biometrics and cloud computing.
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