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  • Patent number: 9008311
    Abstract: A communication system that includes a sender computer and plurality of designated receiver computers coupled to the sender through a communication link. Each one of the receiver computers is equipped with computational resources stronger than the computational resources of an adversary computer. There is provided a method for sending a secret from the sender computer to a designated receiver computer. The sender computer defining a succession of computational tasks having respective solutions. The computational tasks are so defined such that the duration of solving each task by the receiver computer is shorter than what would have been required for the adversary computer to solve the task. Next, the sender computer sending through the link the succession of tasks encrypted by previous solutions and the receiver computer receiving the tasks and is capable of decrypting the secret faster than what would have been required for the adversary computer to decrypt the secret.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Research and Development Authority
    Inventors: Shlomi Dolev, Ephraim Korach, Galit Uzan