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Cryptography can increase the security of computers and modern telecommunication systems. Software viruses and hardware trapdoors are aspects of computer security. Based on a combination of these two aspects, an attack on computer security is presented. The complexity of finding such an attack is discussed. A new open problem is: can cryptography prevent such an attack.
This research started while the author was aangesteld navorser NFWO at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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Desmedt, Y. (1987). Is there an ultimate use of cryptography? (Extended Abstract). In: Odlyzko, A.M. (eds) Advances in Cryptology — CRYPTO’ 86. CRYPTO 1986. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 263. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47721-7_34
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