The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

Time-lock Puzzles and Timed-release Crypto

Author

Ronald L. Rivest,Adi Shamir,David A. Wagner

Entry type

techreport

Abstract

Our motivation is the notion of "time-released crypto", where the goal is to encrypt a message so that it can not be decrypted by anyone, not even the sender, until a pre- determined amount of time has passed. The goal is to "send information into the future". This problem was first discussed by Timothy May.

Date

1996 – March – 10

Key alpha

Rivest

Publication Date

2001-01-01

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