• DocumentCode
    2056021
  • Title

    A "differential" attack on Polly Cracker

  • Author

    Hofheinz, Dennis ; Steinwandt, Rainer

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. fur Algorithmen und Kognitive Syst., Karlsruhe Univ., Germany
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    2002
  • Firstpage
    211
  • Abstract
    We describe an attack on the cryptosystem Polly Cracker for which it is not necessary to know a superset of the monomials used during encryption. The attack is demonstrated with Koblitz\´s "graph perfect code instance" of Polly Cracker.
  • Keywords
    linear algebra; public key cryptography; Polly Cracker; ciphertexts; cryptosystem; differential attack; encryption; graph perfect code instance; linear algebra based attack; public key system; Linear algebra; Polynomials; Public key; Public key cryptography;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7501-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2002.1023483
  • Filename
    1023483