knapsack....

Adam Shostack adam at homeport.org
Thu Dec 10 09:21:19 PST 1998



Chor-Rivest was broken at Crypto98.  Don't use any knapsack
algorithms.

Adam


On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 05:04:22PM +0800, Bernardo B. Terrado wrote:
| Where could I find the algorithm (per se) for
| Merkle-Hellman knapsack ?
| (if it is not for free just say so) :)
| 
| I've read in Mr. Schneier's book that Chor-Rivest knapsack is secure
| (unless for some specializerd attack). Is it still as secure today as the
| latter years?
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| Bernie
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