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Tropical cryptography III: digital signatures

Cryptography and Security 2024-01-18 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We use tropical algebras as platforms for a very efficient digital signature protocol. Security relies on computational hardness of factoring one-variable tropical polynomials; this problem is known to be NP-hard.

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@article{arxiv.2309.11256,
  title  = {Tropical cryptography III: digital signatures},
  author = {Jiale Chen and Dima Grigoriev and Vladimir Shpilrain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.11256},
  year   = {2024}
}

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10 pages

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