Merkle Puzzles in a Quantum World [chapter]

Gilles Brassard, Peter Høyer, Kassem Kalach, Marc Kaplan, Sophie Laplante, Louis Salvail
2011 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
The first unclassified document ever written to solve the key establishment problem and propose the notion of public key cryptography was a project proposal in a course on computer security written by Ralph Merkle in 1974 [13] . We first introduce the model behind Merkle's scheme.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-22792-9_22 fatcat:hwdubj7bgvcwvbdlqrkhsgf7ri