Study of knapsack cryptosystems

• Main Author: Sathia Seelan Vetrichelvan
• Other Authors: Tay Kian Boon
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144623
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Merkle-Hellman knapsack cryptosystem is a public-key cryptosystem proposed by the inventors of public-key cryptography. With the fusion of a mathematical problem and disguise, they developed a cryptosystem based on a one-way trapdoor function. The cryptosystem was successfully attacked by Adi Shamir...