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On the AAGL Protocol

Cryptography and Security 2007-11-23 v5

Abstract

Recently the AAGL (Anshel-Anshel-Goldfeld-Lemieux) has been proposed which can be used for RFID tags. We give algorithms for the problem (we call the MSCSPv) on which the security of the AAGL protocol is based upon. Hence we give various attacks for general parameters on the recent AAGL protocol proposed. One of our attacks is a deterministic algorithm which has space complexity and time complexity both atleast exponentialin the worst case. In a better case using a probabilistic algorithm the time complexity canbe O(|XSS(ui')^L5*(n^(1+e)) and the space complexity can be O(|XSS(ui')|^L6), where the element ui' is part of a public key, n is the index of braid group, XSS is a summit type set and e is a constant in a limit. The above shows the AAGL protocol is potentially not significantly more secure as using key agreement protocols based on the conjugacy problem such as the AAG (Anshel-Anshel-Goldfeld) protocol because both protocols can be broken with complexity which do not significantly differ. We think our attacks can be improved.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0708.2397,
  title  = {On the AAGL Protocol},
  author = {M. M. Chowdhury},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.2397},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

This version differs from the first version because a new attack is given

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