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This chapter discusses a heuristic technique called “linearization” that has been quite powerful in attacking cryptosystems. An attack developed by Courtois and co-workers is turned into a method for proofs in the complexity of learning Boolean functions.
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Lipton, R.J., Regan, K.W. (2013). Nicolas Courtois: The Linearization Method. In: People, Problems, and Proofs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41422-0_50
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