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I want to use the Paillier cryptosystem for encryption and decryption purposes in my research work. But i haven't found a way to encrypt big input messages; As i want to encrypt the message i,e m :

m = 0xa56f89d6aa234776b22347293429ff074928ab3749cc2837c492b874ebfaba78364ba0912efe862f628347982478b

Key Gen:

p =887, q = 907 , n =804509 ,n² = 647234731081;
g = n+1 = 804510;
λ = LCM(p-1,q-1) = 401358;
μ = L(g^λ mod n²)^(-1) mod n = 637146

Encryption:

Let random r = 1987
 c = ((g^m) * (r^n)) (mod n^2)

How can calculate g^m for such big input m?

If encrypted, then how can decryption work for big messages i,e m?

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  • $\begingroup$ Related to this question. $\endgroup$ – Hilder Vitor Lima Pereira Sep 3 '19 at 11:29
  • $\begingroup$ The entire reason Pallier is interesting is because of the partial homomorphic properties; that is, given $E(a)$ and $E(b)$, someone with only the public key can compute $E(a + b \bmod n)$. What are your homomorphic goals if $a > n$? If "none at all", then standard hybrid crypto (use Pallier to encrypt a symmetric key, and then use the symmetric key to encrypt the actual message) is your answer. $\endgroup$ – poncho Sep 3 '19 at 12:19
  • $\begingroup$ No i don't want to use Pallier to encrypt only symmetric key, i want to encrypt some big data(hexadecimal values) $\endgroup$ – abbasi_ahsan Sep 3 '19 at 12:26
  • $\begingroup$ But what is your goal? What problem are you trying to solve? "Using Pallier to encrypt a large amount of data" is a solution, not a goal. $\endgroup$ – poncho Sep 3 '19 at 12:37
  • $\begingroup$ @poncho here i define my goal crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/73023/… $\endgroup$ – abbasi_ahsan Sep 3 '19 at 19:46
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The Paillier cryptosystem allows to encrypt integers modulo $n$. Therefore, if $m$ is bigger than $n$, encrypting it will lose most of the message - only $m \bmod n$ is retrieved through decryption.

To encrypt a message bigger than $n$, you must break it into blocks, which you encrypt separately. You can for example write $m$ in base $n$, as $m = \sum_i m_i n^{i}$, and encrypt the $m_i$'s separately with Paillier.

Also, regarding how to calculate $g^m \bmod n^2$: note that $g = n+1$, hence

$g^m = (1+n)^m = 1 + n\cdot m \bmod n^2$

(if you develop $(1+n)^m$, you get $1 + nm + n^2\cdot \mathsf{something}$, and the $\mathsf{something}$ disappears modulo $n^2$).

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  • $\begingroup$ Is there material/ paper which can help me to implement this $\endgroup$ – abbasi_ahsan Sep 3 '19 at 11:07
  • $\begingroup$ There are probably plenty of resources online about implementations of the Paillier cryptosystem in all major languages. I do not know much about that, since I never implemented it myself. $\endgroup$ – Geoffroy Couteau Sep 3 '19 at 11:19
  • $\begingroup$ @Geoffory Thankyou $\endgroup$ – abbasi_ahsan Sep 3 '19 at 11:28
  • $\begingroup$ This does not give an IND-CCA2/NM-CCA2 public-key encryption scheme as one usually expects from the term ‘public-key encryption’. $\endgroup$ – Squeamish Ossifrage Sep 3 '19 at 14:17

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