Cryptography for Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives Developer Reference

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Discrete-Logarithm-Based Cryptography Functions

This section introduces Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) Cryptography functions allowing for different operations with Discrete Logarithm (DL) based cryptosystem over a prime finite field GF(
p
). The functions are mainly based on the [IEEE P1363A] standard. Implementation of the Digital Signature operations is based on [FIPS PUB 186-2]. The Diffie-Hellman (DH) Agreement scheme is based on [X9.42].
All functions described in this section employ the
IppsDLPState
 context as operational vehicle that carries domain parameters of the DL cryptosystem, a pair of keys, and working buffers.
The application code intended for executing typical operations should perform the following sequence of operations:
  1. Call the function
    DLPGetSize
     to get the size required to configure the
    IppsDLPState
     context.
  2. Ensure that the required memory space is properly allocated. With the allocated memory, call the
    DLPInit
     function to initialize the context of the DL-based cryptosystem.
  3. Set domain parameters of the DL-based cryptosystem by calling the
    DLPSet
     function, or generate domain parameters by calling the
    DLPGenerateDSA
     or
    DLPGenerateDH
    .
  4. Call one of the functions
    DLPSignDSA
    ,
    DLPVerifyDSA
    , and
    DLPSharedSecretDH
     to compute digital signature, to verify authenticity of the digital signature, and to compute the shared element accordingly.
  5. Clean up secret data stored in the context.
  6. Free the memory allocated for the
    IppsDLPState
     context by calling the operating system memory free service function unless the context is no longer needed.
The
IppsDLPState
 context is position-dependent. The
DLPPack/DLPUnpack
 functions transform the position-dependent context to a position-independent form and vice versa.

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