Method and system for providing translation certificates

Abstract

A method for providing publicly verifiable translation certificates comprising the steps of receiving an input encryption having a first secret key; outputting an output re-encryption of the input encryption, the output re-encryption having a second secret key; and generating a translation certificate that proves the input encryption and the output re-encryption are encryptions of an identical message, wherein the first secret key and the second secret key do not need to be, but are allowed to be, equal. This method and system for generating translation certificates in quorum controlled asymmetric proxy encryptions has uses, including but not limited to, Internet applications and specifically to E-mail systems. The scheme, which can use either an ElGamal encryption, an ElGamal encryption based on Elliptic Curves or an ElGamal related encryption algorithm, leaks no information as long as there is no dishonest quorum of proxy servers and produces a small, publicly verifiable translation certificate, that is independent of the number of prover servers involved in the re-encryption.

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