Clouds over a public key cryptosystem based on Lyndon words

✍ Scribed by Marı́a Isabel González Vasco; Rainer Steinwandt

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 51 KB
• Volume: 80
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-0190
• DOI: 10.1016/s0020-0190(01)00170-3

✦ Synopsis

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 sufficiently secure for cryptographic applications.