We analyze the security of the simplified Paillier (S-Paillier) cryptosystem, which was proposed by Catalano et al. We prove that the one-wayness of the S-Paillier scheme is as intractable as the standard RSA problem. We also prove that an adversary, which breaks the semantic security, can compute the least significant bits of the nonce. This observation is interesting, because the least signif...

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The NRC staff has evaluated Praelux’s request and the results of the surveys and has concluded that the completed action complies with 10 CFR part 20. The staff has prepared the EA (summarized above) in support of the proposed license amendment to terminate the license and release the facility for unrestricted use. On the basis of the EA, the NRC has concluded that the environmental impacts fro...

Objectives: Time-use has become an important field of research in social and medical sciences. Time diary is the most popular method for measuring time-use that has 2 different methods of administration including yesterday and tomorrow diary. The present study aimed to compare these methods of measuring time-use.  Methods: This cross-sectional comparative study was conducted on 256 under 5-yea...

introduction: mineral trioxide aggregate (mta) as an alternative material to gutta-percha for obturation of root canal in special cases has several drawbacks. the purpose of this study was to compare the apical sealing ability of a new mta-based sealer versus mta. materials and methods: a total of 36 canals of extracted maxillary central incisors were instrumented and randomly divided into 3 ex...