ElGamal Signature Scheme - System Parameters

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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