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4. Floating-Point Arithmetic

Marius Iulian Mihailescu¹   and Stefania Loredana Nita¹

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Bucharest, Romania

 

Working with big integers can be seen as an abstract art, and if the cryptosystems are not implemented properly, the entire cryptographic algorithm or scheme can lead to a real disaster. This chapter focuses on floating-point arithmetic and its importance for cryptography.

Why floating-point arithmetic?

Floating-point arithmetic represents a special form of arithmetic on which we need to focus because of how it is applicable in the field of cryptography, such as chaos-based cryptography, ...