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The design and implementation of a public-key cryptosystem based on the matrix cover NP-complete problem is described. Section 1 explains the problem, provides the necessary background to understand the implementation and serves to establish the terminology used. The implementation is described in detail in section 2. Section 3 contains further comments on the system and also examines its signature capability. The system borrows quite a few ideas from the Merkle-Hellman scheme [3] and a very brief comparison between the two systems appears in section 4.
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Janardan, R., Lakshmanan, K.B. (1983). A Public-Key Cryptosystem Based on the Matrix Cover NP-Complete Problem. In: Chaum, D., Rivest, R.L., Sherman, A.T. (eds) Advances in Cryptology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0602-4_3
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