ISSN:
1432-0541
Keywords:
Prefix codes
;
Huffman codes
;
Encryption
;
Complexity
;
NP-completeness
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Computer Science
,
Mathematics
Notes:
Abstract Given a natural language cleartext and a ciphertext obtained by Huffman coding, the problem of guessing the code is shown to be NP-complete for various variants of the encoding process.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01185434