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Cryptographic Primitives Can Be Fragile

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Author(s)

Rene C. Peralta

Abstract

We show that a well-known coin-flipping protocol is breakable in the sense that one of the parties can pre-determine the result of the coin-flip. The way in which the protocol fails is illustrative of the fact that there are insecure ways of using secure cryptographic primitives.
Citation
ISO Press, NATO Science Series
Volume
1

Keywords

multiplicative complexity, Hamming weight, symmetric functions, cryptographic proofs, circuit complexity, concrete complexity

Citation

Peralta, R. (2006), Cryptographic Primitives Can Be Fragile, ISO Press, NATO Science Series, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=150385 (Accessed November 9, 2024)

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Created January 3, 2006, Updated January 27, 2020