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ESIGN

As a researcher, you should never dismiss a method, even though it isn’t currently used. There are often opportunities to bring back methods, as has been shown with post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and lightweight cryptography. So let’s look at a smart little signature scheme called ESIGN (Efficient digital SIGNature). The method involves the generation of two random prime numbers (p and q), and generates a value of n=p²q. It was created by Fujioka et al [1], and is defined as…