Information Security Technical ReportVolume 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 18-21Feature articleThe difficulty of attacking cryptosystemsAuthor links open overlay panelSean MurphyShow moreShareCitehttps://doi.org/10.1016/S1363-4127(97)81324-6Get rights and contentAbstractIn this article the author discusses cryptosystems both from the designer's point of view as well as the attacker's point of view. Particular attention is paid to exhaustive key search attacks and the effort required for an attack to be successful.Recommended articlesReferences (0)Cited by (0)View full textCopyright © 1997 Published by Elsevier Ltd.