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Accession Number:
ADA063104
Title:
On the Security of the Merkle-Hellman Cryptographic Scheme,
Corporate Author:
MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE LAB FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE
Report Date:
1978-11-01
Abstract:
In this paper we show that a simplified version of the Merkle-Hellman public-key cryptographic system is breakable. While their full-fledged system seems to be resistant to the cryptanalytic attack we propose, this result suggests some ways in which the security of their system can be further enhanced. Author
Pages:
0013
Contract Number:
N00014-76-C-0366
Contract Number 2:
NsG-1323
File Size:
5.67MB
