• DocumentCode
    1929321
  • Title

    Key Recovery Attack on a Knapsack Public Key Cryptosystem

  • Author

    Ju, Chunfei ; Yuan, Hui

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Eng. Technol., Xijing Univ., Xi´´an, China
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    19-21 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    590
  • Lastpage
    593
  • Abstract
    A new knapsack public key cryptosystem is crypt analyzed. The cryptanalytic attack uses the Euclidean algorithm to obtain the greatest common divisor of some integers, and thus recovers the modulus. Then the attack reconstructs the multiplier by solving a linear congruence. Therefore, all the secret keys can be retrieved in polynomial time. Hence, the public key cryptosystem is insecure.
  • Keywords
    computational complexity; knapsack problems; public key cryptography; Euclidean algorithm; cryptanalytic attack; key recovery attack; knapsack public key cryptosystem; linear congruence; polynomial time; Approximation algorithms; Computers; Encryption; Public key cryptography; Vectors; Euclidean algorithm; public key cryptography; trapdoor knapsack;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS), 2012 4th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Bucharest
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2279-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/iNCoS.2012.89
  • Filename
    6337988