Attack on Kayawood protocol: uncloaking private keys

We analyze security properties of a two-party key-agreement protocol recently proposed by I. Anshel, D. Atkins, D. Goldfeld, and P. Gunnels, called Kayawood protocol. At the core of the protocol is an action (called E-multiplication) of a braid group on some finite set. The protocol assigns a secret...

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Main Authors: Kotov Matvei, Menshov Anton, Ushakov Alexander
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2020-12-01
Series:Journal of Mathematical Cryptology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jmc-2019-0015