• DocumentCode
    3281679
  • Title

    A note on security of knapsack PKC using plaintext encoding over finite fields

  • Author

    Nasako, Takeshi ; Murakami, Yasuyuki

  • Author_Institution
    Osaka Electro-Commun. Univ., Neyagawa
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    7-10 Dec. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    Merkle and Hellman proposed a knapsack cryptosystem. However, it was broken because the density is not sufficiently high. In this paper, we shall explain the high-density knapsack PKCs with plaintext encoding over GF(2). We discuss the influence of the number of non-zero elements of generator matrix on the security against the low-density attack. As the result, this scheme is secure against the low-density attack when the Hamming weight of generator matrix is sufficiently large.
  • Keywords
    Galois fields; Hamming codes; knapsack problems; matrix algebra; public key cryptography; GF(2); Hamming weight; generator matrix; knapsack PKC; plaintext encoding; public key cryptography; security analysis; Encoding; Galois fields; Hamming weight; Information security; Information theory; Public key cryptography; Quantum computing; Sparse matrices; Tin; Zinc;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory and Its Applications, 2008. ISITA 2008. International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Auckland
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2068-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2069-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISITA.2008.4895590
  • Filename
    4895590