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1994 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Weaknesses of a public-key cryptosystem based on factorizations of finite groups

Authors : Simon Blackburn, Sean Murphy, Jacques Stern

Published in: Advances in Cryptology — EUROCRYPT ’93

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Recently, Qu and Vanstone have announced the construction of several new public-key cryptosystems based on group factorization. One of these was described at the last AUSCRYPT meeting [2]. We point out a serious weakness of this last system which makes it insecure. Our method only uses elementary algebra.

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Title
Weaknesses of a public-key cryptosystem based on factorizations of finite groups
Authors
Simon Blackburn
Sean Murphy
Jacques Stern
Copyright Year
1994
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
Advances in Cryptology — EUROCRYPT ’93

Print ISBN: 978-3-540-57600-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-540-48285-7

Copyright Year: 1994

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48285-7_5

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