# Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem

> one of the earliest public key cryptosystems invented by Ralph Merkle and Martin Hellman in 1978. The ideas behind it are simpler than those involving RSA, and it has been broken

**Wikidata**: [Q1760368](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1760368)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle–Hellman_knapsack_cryptosystem)  
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## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013