Cryptanalysis of a Public Key Cryptosystem Proposed at ACISP 2000

  • Authors:
  • Amr M. Youssef;Guang Gong

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ACISP '01 Proceedings of the 6th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

At ACISP 2000, Yoo et al proposed a fast public key cryptosystem using matrices over a ring. The authors claim that the security of their system is based on the RSA problem. In this paper we present a heuristic attack that enables us to recover the private key from the public key. In particular, we show that breaking the system can be reduced to finding a short vector in a lattice which can be achieved using the L3-lattice reduction algorithm.