Barreto, PauloElliott, Edgar James2020-04-302020-04-302020-04-302020Elliott_washington_0250O_21285.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/45415Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2020With the ever-increasing amount of sensitive information being sent and received over the internet, the importance of fast secure cryptographic schemes will only continue to grow. In this paper we examine an existing but not widely known signcryption scheme, and propose modifications to it which increase its efficiency and protect it against side-channel cryptographic attacks.application/pdfen-USCC BYComputer scienceComputer science and systemsThesis