The emergence of some quantum algorithms has brought a serious threat to modern cryptography,among which Shor's algorithm is the most important threatening algorithm for cryptanalysis currently.Shor's algorithm can solve the integer factorization problem (IFP) and discrete logarithm problem (DLP) in polynomial-time,which makes the current widely used RSA,ElGamal and ECC public key cryptosystem unsafe any more under the quantum computing environment.Therefore,it is necessary to research the cryptanalysis in the quantum computing environment.Solving the IFP is the core idea of Shor's algorithm for attacking RSA,but breaking RSA does not have to be solved by solving the IFP.A quantum algorithm is designed to attack the RSA cryptosystem starting from the angle of non-factorization.Focusing on the characteristics of RSA public key cryptosystem,using the quantum Fourier transform,the RSA plaintextMcan be got by calculating theethroot modulusn.That is,without solving the IFP,RSA is broken.Different from the previous practices that cryptanalysts try to recover the private-key,a ciphertext-only attack algorithm for RSA,directly from recovering the plaintextMto start, is presented.Results show that the probability of success of the new algorithm is higher than that of Shor's algorithm attacking RSA.At the same time,the new algorithm does not recover the RSA plaintext from the ciphertext without factoring the modulusn,and avoids the restriction that the order of ciphertextCmodulesnis even.
