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Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem

Known as: Knapsack cipher, Merkle, Merkle-Hellman 
The Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem was one of the earliest public key cryptosystems invented by Ralph Merkle and Martin Hellman in 1978. The… 
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2019
2019
Knapsack problem is a famous NP-complete problem, which is believed to be difficult to be solved even by a quantum computer… 
2017
2017
Cryptography is the essential component in any protocols for securing the communication. Diffie and Hellman introduced the… 
2013
2013
The Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) is one of the operational modes of the Block Ciphers which takes n-blocks of plain text and… 
2013
2013
The Merkle-Hellman invented in 1978 is based on the superincreasing subset problem. Ralph Merkle and Martin Hellman used the… 
2011
2011
Summary The Merkle-Hellman was invented in 1978 and is based on the superincreasing subset problem sum. This paper demonstrates… 
2010
2010
We present our experience integrating MerkleHellman knapsack cryptosystem into undergraduate computer science curriculum. The… 
2010
2010
In classical symmetric or private-key cryptosystems the encryption and decryption keys are either the same or can be easily found… 
2010
2010
In classical symmetric or private-key cryptosystems the encryption and decryption keys are either the same or can be easily found… 
1984
1984
This paper gives a performance analysis of one variant of Shamir's attack on the basic Merkle-Hellman knapsack cryptosystem… 
1982
1982
In April, 1982, Adi Shamir caused a furor with the announcement [1] of “A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Breaking Merkle-Hellman…