Cryptanalysis of shifted conjugacy authentication protocol
Group Theory
2007-08-15 v1 Cryptography and Security
Abstract
In this paper we present the first practical attack on the shifted conjugacy-based authentication protocol proposed by P. Dehornoy. We discuss the weaknesses of that primitive and propose ways to improve the protocol.
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@article{arxiv.0708.1768,
title = {Cryptanalysis of shifted conjugacy authentication protocol},
author = {Jonathan Longrigg and Alexander Ushakov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.1768},
year = {2007}
}
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8 pages