The Cryptographic Security of Compact Knapsacks (Preliminary Report)
In 1978, Merkle and Hellman introduced a knapsack-based public-key cryptosystem, which received widespread attention. The two major open problems concerning this cryptosystem are: (i) Security: How difficult are the Merkle-Hellman knapsacks? (ii) Efficiency: Can the huge key size be reduced? In this...
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2023
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148991 |