title: New method of attack and security enhancement on an asymmetric cryptosystem based on equal modulus decomposition.
abstract: A recently proposed asymmetric cryptosystem based on coherent superposition and equal modulus decomposition has shown to be robust against a specific attack. In this paper, we have shown that it is vulnerable to a newly designed attack. With this attack, an intruder is able to access the exact private key and obtain precise attack results using a phase retrieval algorithm. In addition, we have also proposed a security-enhanced asymmetric cryptosystem using a random decomposition technique and a 4f optical system. In the proposed system, random decomposition is employed to create an effective trapdoor one-way function. As a result, it is able to avoid various types of attacks and maintain the asymmetric characteristics of the cryptosystem. Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the feasibility and robustness of the proposed method.
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Chenggen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Quan
authors.forename: Cho Jui
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Tay