Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2006/417
The Recent Attack of Nie et al On TTM is Faulty
T.Moh
Abstract: Recently there is a paper entitled "{\it Breaking a New Instance of TTM Cryptosystem}" by Xuyun Nie, Lei
Hu, Jianyu Li, Crystal Updegrove and Jintai Ding [1] claiming a successive attack on the scheme
of TTM presented in [3]. In the present article, we will show that their claim is a
{\bf misunderstanding}.
Category / Keywords: Public key, TTM
Date: received 14 Nov 2006, last revised 27 Nov 2006
Contact author: ttm at math purdue edu
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Note: The phrase "Note that the {\bf constructions} of the private
keys are even unknown to the legitimate users." is added at the end of the first paragraph of section 2.
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