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
Link To Document