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CAs as trapdoor on way functions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Aronson)
Sun May 7 18:40:38 2000
From: "Simon Aronson" <S.M.Aronson@reading.ac.uk>
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Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 21:51:17 +0100
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Does anyone know if any research has been done into the use of cellular
automata as one way functions? or even into the reversing of CAs?
[People have tried using Cellular Automata for all sorts of
cryptographic purposes, never too successfully. --Perry]