A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Breaking the Basic Merkle—Hellman Cryptosystem

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The Merkle-Hellman cryptosystem is one of the two major public-key cryptosystems proposed so far. It is shown that the basic variant of this cryptosystem, in which the elements of the public key are modular multiples of a superincreasing sequence, in breakable in polynomial time. © 1984 IEEE

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Shamir, A. (1984). A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Breaking the Basic Merkle—Hellman Cryptosystem. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 30(5), 699–704. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.1984.1056964

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