Title :
Cryptanalysis of Polly Cracker
Author :
Steinwandt, Rainer ; Geiselmann, Willi
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Algorithmen und Kognitive Syst., Karlsruhe Univ., Germany
fDate :
11/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An attack on the public key cryptosystem Polly Cracker is described, that reveals the complete secret key σ ∈ Fq n by means of n (nonadaptively) chosen "fake" ciphertexts
Keywords :
polynomials; public key cryptography; Polly Cracker; cryptanalysis; fake ciphertexts; multivariate polynomials; public key cryptosystem; secret key; Galois fields; NP-complete problem; Polynomials; Public key cryptography; Security;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TIT.2002.804112