Clouds over a public key cryptosystem ba
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Marı́a Isabel González Vasco; Rainer Steinwandt
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Article
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2001
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We demonstrate that with the given specifications the Lyndon words based public key cryptosystem suggested by Siromoney and Mathew [Inform. Process. Lett. 35 (1990) 33-36] is susceptible to very simple ciphertext only attacks. Consequently, in the present form this system cannot be considered as suf