CRYPTOGRAPHY MINI-TUTORIAL.


Copyright © 2001 G. William Moore, MD, PhD.
http://www.medparse.com/whatcryp.htm

G. William Moore, MD, PhD [1,2,3],

From: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service (113), Baltimore VA Maryland Health Care System [1], Baltimore, MD.
Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine [2], Baltimore, MD.
Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions [3], Baltimore, MD.



0. TABLE OF CONTENTS.


1. ABSTRACT.
2. INTRODUCTION.
3. METHODS OF ENCRYPTION.
4. SAMPLE RSA ENCRYPTION CALCULATION.
5. U. S. LEGISLATION, PRIVACY IN MEDICAL RECORDS.
6. INTERMEDIATE CALCULATIONS, RSA ENCRYPTION EXAMPLE.



1. ABSTRACT.


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2. INTRODUCTION.


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      Understanding DATA ENCRYPTION has experienced a new urgency among medical professionals, on the basis of several recent developments. First, there has been an explosive growth in the exchange of electronic medical information, often without careful consideration of the consequences to patient privacy.

      Second, the public's response to this fear of disclosure of their private medical information has been the introduction of new legislation attached to the HEALTH INFORMATION PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT (HIPAA) also known as the KENNEDY-KASSEBAUM BILL.

      It is clear that clinical-medical laboratory professionals must be of these advances, if for no other reason than to approve and contribute to the purchase of software and security systems.

      In CLASSICAL CRYPTOGRAPHY, there is a MESSAGE, a SENDER, and a RECEIVER. It is assumed that any communication between sender and receiver may be easily read by a hostile person, or ATTACKER. The usual objective of cryptography is to encode the sender's message in such a way that the attacker cannot understand it. In more complex cryptographic models, methods are used to authenticate the identity of the sender, to prevent the attacker from altering the message unbeknownst to the receiver, and to prevent the sender from later denying that he/she sent a particular message on a particular date and time. The following book is an absolutely fabulous introduction to cryptography, which can profitably be read by amateurs and professionals alike:
Schneier B.
Applied Cryptography, Second Edition. Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
ISBN: 0-471-11709-9, 758 pages.


      ENCRYPTION. The initial message prepared by the sender is written as PLAINTEXT, which the sender converts into CIPHERTEXT before the message is transmitted. The process of converting plaintext into ciphertext is called ENCRYPTION. The encryption process requires an ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM and a KEY. the process of recovering plaintext from ciphertext is called DECRYPTION.

      In classical cryptography, the key is exchanged secretly between sender and receiver over secured communication, or through a trusted intermediary. The accepted view among professional cryptographers it that the encryption algorithm should be published, whereas the key must be kept secret. The purpose of publishing the encryption algorithm is to place it before the academic cryptography community, which will discover its flaws. Better that the flaws in the encryption algorithm be first discovered in academia than when the message is secretly decoded by the attacker.

      SAMPLE ENCRYPTION CALCULATION. Both the initial plaintext and the resulting ciphertext may contain words or numbers or both, but is ultimately convertible into a sequence of numerals, which can be processed by computer and distributed through public communications, including the Internet. For simplicity of discussion, we can speak of an initial plaintext expressed as a sequence of decimal numerals. For example, let the letters of the alphabet be represented as two-digit numbers from A=00 to Z=25 (ignore blank-spaces for now). Then the plaintext for THE QUICK BROWN FOX becomes numeralized as 19070416200802100117142213051423, as follows:
       THEQUICKBROWNFOX
       T  H  E  Q  U  I  C  K  B  R  O  W  N  F  O  X
      19 07 04 16 20 08 02 10 01 17 14 22 13 05 14 23
Analogously, we may form a simple key consisting, say, of the consecutive letters of the alphabet: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCD....
  ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS
  A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U....
 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20....
A simple encryption algorithm might consist of adding the plaintext to the encryption-key, using MODULO-26 ARITHMETIC. That is, if the sum of any two numbers obtained by ordinary addition is 26 or greater, then you subtract 26 from the ordinary sum to obtain the modulo-26 sum. Thus, 05+12=17 by both ordinary and modulo-26 arithmetic, but 15+12=27 by ordinary arithmetic but 15+12=01 by modulo-26 arithmetic. Hence, the ciphertext for THEQUICKBROWNFOX is 19080619241308170901240725180212, as follows:
      19 07 04 16 20 08 02 10 01 17 14 22 13 05 14 23
 (+)  00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15   (modulo-26)
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      19 08 06 19 24 13 08 17 09 01 24 07 25 18 02 12
The ciphertext may then be decrypted by the receiver, using the decryption-key AZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBAZYX... and modulo-26 arithmetic, as follows:
      19 08 06 19 24 13 08 17 09 01 24 07 25 18 02 12
 (+)  00 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11  (modulo-26)
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      19 07 04 16 20 08 02 10 01 17 14 22 13 05 14 23




3. METHODS OF ENCRYPTION.


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      The ONE-TIME PAD is a nearly-perfect method of encryption, invented in 1917 by Major Joseph Mauborgne and Gilbert Vernam. The method is also known as the SECRET LOOKUP TABLE among clinical laboratory specialists, and is the only method of encryption sanctioned by the U. S. HEALTH INFORMATION PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT (HIPAA) (2001, as amended). In this method, the sender and receiver agree upon a common secret text, which forms the key. Each key letter is used exactly once, and then discarded forever. Ideally, the key should be completely random. For example, if the receiver and sender employ the text for George Orwell's 1984 as their one-time pad, then the encryption-key becomes:
  ITWASABRIGHTCOLDDAYINAPRILANDTHECLOCKSWERESTRIKINGTHIRTEENWINSTON....
Analogously, the decryption-key becomes:
  SHEAIAZJSUTHYMPXXACSNALJSPANXHTWYPMYQIEWJW
Encryption of the plaintext, THEQUICKBROWNFOX, yields the ciphertext, BAAQMIDCJXFPPTZA, as follows:
       THEQUICKBROWNFOX
 (+)   ITWASABRIGHTCOLD
_______________________
       BAAQMIDCJXFPPTZA
that is:
      19 07 04 16 20 08 02 10 01 17 14 22 13 05 14 23  (plaintext)
 (+)  08 19 22 00 18 00 01 17 08 06 07 19 02 14 11 03  (encryption-key)
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      01 00 00 16 12 08 03 01 09 23 21 15 15 19 25 00  (ciphertext)
       B  A  A  Q  M  I  D  B  J  X  V  P  P  T  Z  A
Decryption of the ciphertext, BAAQMIDBJXVPPTZA, returns the plaintext, THEQUICKBROWNFOX, as follows:
       BAAQMIDBJXVPPTZA
 (+)   SHEAIAZJSUTHYMPX
_______________________
       THEQUICKBROWNFOX
that is:
      01 00 00 16 12 08 03 01 09 23 21 15 15 19 25 00  (ciphertext)
 (+)  18 07 04 00 08 00 25 09 18 20 19 07 24 12 15 23  (decryption-key)
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      19 07 04 16 20 08 02 10 01 17 14 22 13 05 14 23  (plaintext)
The next message between sender and receiver begins with the key,
 DAYINAPRILANDTHECLOCKSWERESTRIKINGTHIRTEENWINSTONSMITHHISCHINNUZZLED....
The one-time-pad has the advantage of simplicity and relative security, but it requires the maintenance of a large key, which sender and receiver must maintain in synchrony.

      The U. S. DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD (USDES), equivalent to the DATA ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM (DEA) of the AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE (ANSI), and DEA-1 of the INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANIZATION (ISO), has been a worldwide standard for data encryption for over two decades. In the May 15, 1973, U. S. Federal Register, the U. S. NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (NIST, formerly U. S. NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS), issued a public request for a data encryption algorithm, which ultimately evolved into USDES.

      In USDES, the plaintext is converted into a sequence of bits (0s and 1s), in blocks of 64 bits apiece, padded with trailing 0s in case the message is not an even multiple of 64. For example, in the Latin-1 character set for the AMERICAN STANDARD CODE FOR INFORMATION INTERCHANGE (ASCII), which is the International Standards Organization (ISO) standard ....., an 8-bit-sequence, in which 00100001 is A, 00100010 is B, 00100011 is C, 00010000 is blank-space, 00010001 is !, etc.

      In USDES, a 64-bit block, corresponding to plaintext, is entered into the algorithm, and a corresponding 64-bit block, corresponding to ciphertext, is returned by the algorithm. The same algorithm and key are used for both encryption and decryption, with minor changes. The key length is 56 bits. The key is expressed as a 64-bit number, but every eighth bit is an internal arithmetic check, and not used by the encryption algorithm. The algorithm is completely public. All security resides within the key.

      Until year 2000, security keys beyond 56 bits were illegal in the USA. An exporter of software for large security keys risked prosecution under the same laws as exporters of U. S. nuclear weapons. Philip K. Zimmermann, the author of PRETTY GOOD PRIVACY, fought a valiant legal battle to publicize the ridiculousness of this law, whereby U. S. commercial secrets could be easily broken into by our sophisticated foreign competitors, but not not vice versa. Fortunately, this legal loophole has been corrected.

      After initial permutation of the plaintext, the block is broken into a left and right half, 32 bits apiece. Then there are 16 rounds of identical operations, in which data are combined within the key. The resulting right and left halves are joined, and a final permutation concludes the calculation. The patent belongs to IBM. Nowadays, various implementations of USDES are in widespread use, including as a built-in function in PERL. (However, I tried to use this on my free, public-domain version of PERL, and I got back a paranoid message. Apparently, the author of this version did not wish to risk imprisonment in U. S. Federal prisons.)

      In USDES, the plaintext is converted into a sequence of bits (0s and 1s), in blocks of 64 bits apiece, padded with trailing 0s in case the message is not an even multiple of 64. A 64-bit block of plaintext enters USDES, and a 64-bit block of ciphertext is returned by the algorithm. The same algorithm and key are used for both encryption and decryption, with minor changes. The key length is 56 bits. (The key is expressed as a 64-bit number, but every eighth bit is an internal arithmetic (parity) check, and not actually used by the encryption algorithm.) The algorithm is completely public. All security resides within the key.
      In USDES, the two fundamental component operations are PERMUTATION and EXCLUSIVE-OR. In a permutation step, the order of the bits in the 64-bit sequence is rearranged, an operation which is easily reversed. In an exclusive-or step, denoted ^ in PERL, each bit is subject to the operation x ^ y = z, where z=1 if x=1 or y=1 but not both; whereas z=0 if both (x=0 and y=0) or both (x=1 and y=1).
For example:
      1011001110000101010110110011100001010101101100111000010101010101
  ^   1111100001010001010111111000010100010101111110000101000101010101
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      0100101111010100000001001011110101000000010010111101010000000000
The exclusive-or operation is likewise easily reversed. That is, if t is the plaintext, k is the key, c is the ciphertext, and t ^ k = c, then c ^ k = t. Both permutation and exclusive-or operations have the desirable mathematical properties that:
(1) the ciphertext is exactly the same size as the plaintext; and
(2) each of these operations is easily reversed.
The USDES consists of a complex sequence of permutations and exclusive-ors.

      BLOWFISH ENCRYPTION was invented by Bruce Schneier in 1993, who published the source code, and released the algorithm into the public domain. There are no restrictions on the use or distribution of Blowfish. After a four years of intensive testing in the public arena, Blowfish's only known fault is that there are some weak keys. Blowfish is present in dozens of commercial products including Symantec's Norton YOUR EYES ONLY and McAfee's PCCRYPTO. Symantec and McAfee are the two leading vendors of computer-virus protection software.
Schneier B. Applied Cryptography, Second Edition. Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
Schneier B. The Blowfish Encryption Algorithm. Dr. Dobbs Journal, 19:38-40, 1994.
Claburn T. Blowfish. Wired. p. 7, June, 1997.
DESIGN FEATURES OF BLOWFISH ENCRYPTION. The algorithm is USDES-like, but much faster and easier to understand and to implement on small computers. The algorithm is so simple that it could be explained to an undergraduate mathematics major. The algorithm can be written in PERL and/or JavaScript, both of which are relatively simple programming languages. The algorithm does not use large-integer arithmetic. Blowfish was constructed to meet the following design criteria.
1. Fast.
2. Compact.
3. Simple.
4. Variably Secure.
Blowfish is optimized for applications in which the key does not change often. It is significantly faster than USDES when implemented on a 32-bit microprocessor with large data caches, such as the Pentium.

      Blowfish is a 64-bit-block algorithm with a variable-length key. The algorithm consists to two parts:
1. KEY EXPANSION converts a key of up to 448 bytes into several subkey 32-bit arrays: the permutation-array, denoted Pi (i=1,...18); and the string-array, denoted Si,j (i=1,...4) and (j=0,...255).
2. DATA ENCRYPTION consists of a FEISTEL FUNCTION, F(), iterated for 16 rounds.
To encrypt, divide the initial plaintext into a left and right half, 32 bits apiece, denoted L0 and R0. Then for each i, i=1,...16:
let Li be set equal to Li-1 ^ Pi; let Ri be set equal to F(Li) ^ Pi; then swap Li and Ri.
Finally, swap Li and Ri (i.e., undo the 16th swap). Then:
Let Rfinal be set equal to R16^P17; Let Lfinal be set equal to L16^P18;
Finally, rejoin the right and left halves, denoted Lfinal and Rfinal.
      Decryption is the same as encryption, except that P1,... P18 are used in reverse order.
      Subkeys are calculated as follows:

1. Initialize P'1,... P'18, and then S'1,0,... S'4,255, in order, using the hexadecimal expansion of pi.
2. Obtain the secret-permutation array, P1,... P18, by letting Pi be set equal to P'i ^ Ki.
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      ASYMMETRIC ENCRYPTION. In 1976, Diffie, Hellman, and Merkle introduced the paradigm of public-key or asymmetric encryption. In classical, symmetric encryption, the sender and receiver use essentially the same key, or paired keys which are obvious (symmetric) transformations of one another. In asymmetric encryption, the receiver creates a public-key and a private-key. The public-key may be distributed without restriction. The private-key is known only to the receiver, so that there are no problems incumbent upon giving a key to a possibly untrustworthy sender. The basic mathematical principle underlying asymmetric encryption is that it is an enormous computational task to factor a number which is the product of two large prime numbers.

      The most popular asymmetric encryption algorithm is the RSA public-key encryption algorithm (named after its authors: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman). Prof. Rivest's security and cryptography webpage is available at URL:
http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/crypto-security.html
Every significant public-key encryption algorithm has been patented. The U.S. patent for the RSA public-key encryption algorithm expired on September 20, 2000. However, you should not take this fact as a go-ahead to freely use the above methodology. Patent-holders are notoriously jealous of a successful invention, and it is likely that variants of the original idea have been repatented in another form that will get you in trouble if you tread upon it. The pharmaceutical industry is notorious for this sort of thing. You should first consult a patent attorney. Better yet, purchase a software license from a reputable vendor, and let the experts argue about who owns what.

      In asymmetric encryption, the public-key is the product of two, very large prime numbers, whereas the private-key is the factors themselves. The underlying principle of asymmetric encryption is the mathematical conjecture (i.e., unproved mathematical assertion) that it is an enormous computational task to factor a number which is the product of two large prime numbers. This conjecture has never been proved mathematically, but likewise in the past two decades of serious investigation by the world's best cryptanalysts, nobody has successfully challenged this mathematical assertion.



4. SAMPLE RSA ENCRYPTION CALCULATION.


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      SAMPLE CALCULATION FOR RSA ENCRYPTION. The RSA method is breathtakingly elegant in its simplicity. Beyond the need for obtaining large prime numbers and performing large-integer arithmetic, the concept is so simple that it can be explained to a bright college undergraduate in mathematics. The big problem with public use of RSA is that it is patented. Table 1 shows the essential steps in asymmetric encryption by the RSA Method:
TABLE 1:

PUBLIC KEY:
n = product of two prime numbers, p and q.
e is relatively prime to (p-1)*(q-1).

PRIVATE KEY:
d = (e-1) mod((p-1)(q-1)).

ENCRYPTION:
c = (te) mod n.

DECRYPTION:
t = (cd) mod n.
where n is the (public) product, e is the public (=encryption) key, d is the private (=decryption) key, t is the plaintext, and c is the ciphertext.

      The term x modulo n, or x mod n, denotes the (whole number) remainder of the division of x by n. Modulo arithmetic, or so-called 'clock arithmetic', is the mathematical method by which we determine, say, that five hours after ten o'clock, it is three o'clock. That is, the ordinary clock is a modulo-12 device, and [(5+10) mod 12] equals 3. Similarly, the second-hand and minute-hand on the clock are modulo-60 devides, and the military clock is a modulo-24 device. Modulo arithmetic has the fantastic advantage that integer arithemetic can be performed on huge integers with absolute accuracy, without having intermediate calculations exceed a predetermined size, namely, the square of the modulus. Modulo arithmetic is one of the pillars of modern cryptography.

      After determining prime numbers p and q, then calculating n, e, and d, one discards p,q. The receiver distributes numbers (n,e) publicly, whereas d is kept secret and known only to the receiver. The receiver needs numbers (n,d) to decrypt his messages.

      The paradigm of asymmetric encryption may be illustrated by a simple example that can be verified on a hand calculator. (Actually, the hand calculator is a bit tedious; it is probably faster to write a program in QBasic, Visual Basic, or PERL, if you know these languages.) In the example, let p=31 and q=37. These are not large prime numbers, but they serve as a didactic example. Then n= 31*37 = 1147.

      The next task is to select e, which must be relatively prime (i.e., not share a common factor larger than one) with ((p-1)*(q-1)) = 30*36 = 1080. For this simple example, one may simply try out all the possible values of e less than sqrt(1081) (the so-called SIEVE OF ERATOSTHENES). That is, one requires a value of e such that there is a whole-number d such that d * e = 1081. For really big primes, there are more efficient ways to obtain d,e. In the present example, e=23, d=47, and
d * e = 23 * 47 = 1081 = (1) mod 1080 = (1) mod ((p-1)*(q-1)).
That is, '1 mod 1080' denotes that the remainder of 1081 divided by 1080 is 1. Since d * e = 1 can be written equivalently as d = (e-1), we can assert that:
d = (23-1) mod(30*36) = 47.


      Let the plaintext message be the number t=13. Then we may encrypt the plaintext message, t, according to the formula in Table 1 as:
c = (t3) mod n = (1323) mod 1147 = 520.
That is:
t1 = 13, and (t1) mod 1147 = 13.
t2 = 169, and (t2) mod 1147 = 169.
t3 = 2197, so that (t3) mod 1147 = 1050.
The calculation may be continued on a small calculator by noting that:
[t4 mod 1147] equals [t * [(t3) mod 1147] mod 1147]
[t5 mod 1147] equals [t * [(t4) mod 1147] mod 1147]
....
c = [1323 mod 1147] equals [t * [(t22) mod 1147] mod 1147]
c = (1323) mod 1147 = 520.
In this manner, the whole-numbers in the intermediate calculations never exceed 11472 in size.

      When the receiver obtains the ciphertext, c=520, it may be decrypted by the formula (Table 1):
t = (cd) mod n = (52047) mod 1147 = 13.
Note that not even the sender can decrypt the initial message, t, after it has been encrypted into ciphertext, c.

      LEGAL STATUS OF ASYMMETRIC CRYPTOGRAPHY. At this time, every significant public-key encryption algorithm is patented, and several legal challenges to these patents to date have all been decided in favor of the patent holders. The U.S. patent for the RSA public-key encryption algorithm expired on September 20, 2000. However, you should not take this fact as a go-ahead to freely use the above methodology. Patent-holders are notoriously jealous of a successful invention, and it is likely that variants of the original idea have been repatented in another form that will get you in trouble if you tread upon it. The pharmaceutical industry is notorious for this sort of thing. You should first consult a patent attorney. Better yet, purchase a software license from a reputable vendor, and let the experts argue about who owns what.



5. U. S. LEGISLATION,
PRIVACY IN MEDICAL RECORDS.


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      1. U. S. Senate 1416, H.R. 2690. The Genetic Privacy and Non-Discrimination Act of 1995. November 15, 1995 (Senate); November 29, 1995 (H.R.).

      2. U. S. Senate 1360. The Medical Records Confidentiality Act of 1995. October 24, 1995.

      3. U. S. Senate 1898. The Genetic Confidentiality and Non-Discrimination Act of 1996. June 24, 1996.

      4. U. S. Senate Bill 422. The Genetic Confidentiality and Non-Discrimination Act of 1997. March 11, 1997

      5. U. S. Code of Federal Regulations. 1995. 45 CFR Subtitle A (10-1-95 Edition), part 46.101 (b) (4).
U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Secretary.
The complete Common Rule document (45CFR46), at URL:
http://www.uaf.edu/oar/irb/45cfr46.html
or at URL:
http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/humansubjects/guidance/45cfr46.htm

      6. U. S. Code of Federal Regulations. 1999. 45 CFR Parts 160 - 164. Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information; Proposed Rule.
Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Secretary.
Fed Regist. 1999 Nov 3;64(212):59917-59966. http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/

      7. National Cancer Institute's Confidentiality Brochure, at URL:
http://www-cdp.ims.nci.nih.gov/policy.html

      8. Moore GW, Berman JJ.
Anatomic Pathology Data Mining.
In: Cios KJ, ed. Medical Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
2001. XVIII, 502 pp. 98 figs., 98 tabs. Hardcover.
ISBN: 3-7908-1340-0.
Copyright Springer-Verlag: Berlin/Heidelberg 1999.

      9. Sweeney L.
Computational Disclosure Control: A Primer on Data Privacy Protection.
PhD Thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Spring, 2001. Draft.
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/classes/6.805/articles/privacy/sweeney-thesis-draft.pdf

      10. Sweeney L.
Privacy and medical-records research.
N Engl J Med. 1998 Apr 9;338(15):1077.
PMID: 9537887; UI: 98181820.

      11. Sweeney L.
Guaranteeing anonymity when sharing medical data, the Datafly System.
Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp. 1997;:51-55.
PMID: 9357587; UI: 98020458.

      12. Prof. Ron Rivest's security and cryptography webpage:
http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/crypto-security.html

      13. Schneier B.
Applied Cryptography, Second Edition. Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
ISBN: 0-471-11709-9, 758 pages.

      14. Moore GW, Brown LA, Miller RE.
Gödelization of a Pathology Database: Re-identification by Inference.
Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2002;:in press.
http://www.netautopsy.org/apep01gd.htm
Accepted for presentation as Eposter at the October, 2001, conference, Advancing Pathology Informatics, Imaging, and the Internet:
http://apiii.upmc.edu



6. INTERMEDIATE CALCULATIONS,
RSA ENCRYPTION EXAMPLE.


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      Powers of 13, Modulo 1147:

(131) mod 1147 = 13.
(132) mod 1147 = 169
(133) mod 1147 = 1050.
(134) mod 1147 = 1033.
(138) mod 1147 = 379.
(1316) mod 1147 = 266.
(1320) mod 1147 = 645.
(1323) mod 1147 = 520.
(1324) mod 1147 = 1025.
Powers of 520, Modulo 1147:

(5201) mod 1147 = 520.
(5202) mod 1147 = 855.
(5204) mod 1147 = 386.
(5208) mod 1147 = 1033.
(52016) mod 1147 = 379.
(52032) mod 1147 = 266.
(52040) mod 1147 = 645.
(52044) mod 1147 = 71.
(52047) mod 1147 = 13.




Last Updated: September 23, 2001, by G. William Moore, MD, PhD.