• DocumentCode
    847535
  • Title

    Cryptanalysis of Polly Cracker

  • Author

    Steinwandt, Rainer ; Geiselmann, Willi

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. fur Algorithmen und Kognitive Syst., Karlsruhe Univ., Germany
  • Volume
    48
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    11/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2990
  • Lastpage
    2991
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.2002.804112
  • Filename
    1042343