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A New Cryptosystem Based on Positive Braids

Cryptography and Security 2019-10-11 v1

Abstract

The braid group is an important non commutative group, at the same time, it is an important tool in quantum field theory with better topological structure, and often used as a research carrier for anti-quantum cryptographic algorithms. This paper proposed a difficult problem on a positive braid semi-group, and proved that the difficulty is not lower than the conjugate search problem. Based on this new difficult problem, we propose a new cryptosystem, which include a key exchange protocol and a public key encryption algorithm. Since our cryptosystem is implemented on a semi-group, it effectively avoids the analysis of attack algorithms on the cluster and makes our algorithm more secure.

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@article{arxiv.1910.04346,
  title  = {A New Cryptosystem Based on Positive Braids},
  author = {Xiaoming Chen and Weiqing You and Meng Jiao and Kejun Zhang and Shuang Qing and Zhiqiang Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.04346},
  year   = {2019}
}