An improved low-density subset sum algorithm

  • Authors:
  • M. J. Coster;B. A. LaMacchia;A. M. Odlyzko;C. P. Schnorr

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey;MIT, Cambridge, MA and AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey;AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey;Universität Frankfurt, Fachbereich Mathematik, Informatik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  • Venue:
  • EUROCRYPT'91 Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Theory and application of cryptographic techniques
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

The general subset sum problem is NP-complete. However, there are two algorithms, one due to Brickell and the other to Lagarias and Odlyzko, which in polynomial time solve almost all subset sum problems of sufficiently low density. Both methods rely on basis reduction algorithms to find short non-zero vectors in special lattices. The Lagarias-Odlyzko algorithm would solve almost all subset sum problems of density