Braid groups, Artin groups and their applications in cryptography

The aim of this article is to show how the braid groups can serve as a good platform to enrich cryptography. Braid groups are useful to cryptography for a number of reasons: (i) the word problem is solved via a fast algorithm which computes the canonical form which can be efficiently handled by comp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Webster, Catherine
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14279