Title :
A "differential" attack on Polly Cracker
Author :
Hofheinz, Dennis ; Steinwandt, Rainer
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Algorithmen und Kognitive Syst., Karlsruhe Univ., Germany
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;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7501-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2002.1023483
