From: jamesd@netcom.com (James A. Donald)
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 94 22:26:21 PST
To: eagle@deepthought.armory.com (Jeff Davis)
Subject: Re: Algorithm Example Question
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Jeff Davis writes
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> What is the Knapsack algorithm and could someone please give me an example
> of it?  Is this single time key encryption?
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> Thanks.  

Well the main thing you need to know about the knapsack problem is
that crypto schemes based on the knapsack problem get broken with
depressing regularity.



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