id: 05473386 dt: j an: 05473386 au: Hwang, Tzonelih; Lee, Narn Yih; Li, Chuan Ming; Chang, Chin Chen ti: On the security of chang and wu’s broadcasting cryptosystem for computer networks. so: Comput. Syst. Sci. Eng. 11, No. 5, 311-314 (1996). py: 1996 pu: CRL Publishing Ltd., London la: EN cc: E.3 C.2.2 ut: broadcasting cryptosystem; Euclidean geometry; interpolation polynomial ci: li: ab: Summary: In 1991, Chang and Wu proposed a cryptosystem for broadcasting messages in computer networks based on the characteristics of the Interpolating polynomials and some properties of the Euclidean geometry. We show that their scheme is not secure enough because the secrete points of the users can be derived by an opponent. rv: