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Analysis of a certain polycyclic-group-based cryptosystem

Group Theory 2015-04-21 v1

Abstract

We investigate security properties of the Anshel-Anshel-Goldfeld commutator key-establishment protocol used with certain polycyclic groups. We show that despite low success of the length based attack the protocol can be broken by a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1504.05040,
  title  = {Analysis of a certain polycyclic-group-based cryptosystem},
  author = {Matvei Kotov and Alexander Ushakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.05040},
  year   = {2015}
}
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