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Reaction Attacks against Several Public-Key Cryptosystem

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Information and Communication Security (ICICS 1999)

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We present attacks against the McEliece Public-Key Cryptosystem, the Atjai-Dwork Public-Key Cryptosystem, and variants of those systems. Most of these systems base their security on the apparent intractibility of one or more problems. The attacks we present do not violate the intractibility of the underlying problems, but instead obtain information about the private key or plaintext by watching the reaction of someone decrypting a given ciphertext with the private key. In the case of the McEliece system we must repeat the attack for each ciphertext we wish to decrypt, whereas for the Ajtai-Dwork system we are able to recover the private key.

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  1. Counterpane Systems, 101 E. Minnehaha Pkwy, Minneapolis, MN, 55419, USA

    Chris Hall & Bruce Schneier

  2. U.C. at Berkeley, Soda Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720-1776, USA

    Ian Goldberg

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  1. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    Vijay Varadharajan

  2. Centre for Computer and Information Security Research School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia

    Yi Mu

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Hall, C., Goldberg, I., Schneier, B. (1999). Reaction Attacks against Several Public-Key Cryptosystem. In: Varadharajan, V., Mu, Y. (eds) Information and Communication Security. ICICS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1726. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47942-0_2

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