System Parameters
- Let H be a collision-resistant hash function.
- Let p be a large prime such that computing discrete logarithms modulo p is difficult.
- Let g < p be a randomly chosen generator of the multiplicative group of integers modulo p .
These system parameters may be shared between users.
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