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It was recently demonstrated that the Matrix Action Key Exchange (MAKE) algorithm, a new type of key exchange protocol using the semidirect product of matrix groups, is vulnerable to a linear algebraic attack if the matrices are over a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Christopher Battarbee , Delaram Kahrobaei , Siamak F. Shahandashti

In this paper, we define a set which has a finite group action and is generated by a finite color set, a set which has a finite group action, and a subset of the set of non negative integers. we state its properties to apply one of solution…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Tomoyuki Tamura

In this paper, we propose a quasigroup based block cipher design. The round functions of the encryption and decryption algorithms use quasigroup based string transformations. We show the robustness of the design against the standard…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Sharwan K. Tiwari , Ambrish Awasthi , Sucheta Chkrabarti , Sudha Yadav

For a oriented genus g surface with one boundary component, S, the Torelli group is the group of orientation preserving homeomorphisms of S that induce the identity on homology. The Magnus representation of the Torelli group represents the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-08-19 R. Taylor McNeill

Cryptographic systems are derived using units in group rings. Combinations of types of units in group rings give units not of any particular type. This includes cases of taking powers of units and products of such powers and adds the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Barry Hurley , Ted Hurley

We demonstrate that the matrix quantum group $SL_q(2)$ gives rise to nontrivial matrix product operator representations of the Lie group $SL(2)$, providing an explicit characterization of the nontrivial global $SU(2)$ symmetry of the XXZ…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-15 Romain Couvreur , Laurens Lootens , Frank Verstraete

In 2003, Cohn and Umans proposed a group-theoretic approach to bounding the exponent of matrix multiplication. Previous work within this approach ruled out certain families of groups as a route to obtaining $\omega = 2$, while other…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Jonah Blasiak , Henry Cohn , Joshua A. Grochow , Kevin Pratt , Chris Umans

This work is a study of DES-like ciphers where the bitwise exclusive-or (XOR) operation in the underlying Feistel network is replaced by an arbitrary group operation. We construct a two round simplified version of DES that contains all the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Liljana Babinkostova , Alyssa M. Bowden , Andrew M. Kimball , Kameryn J. Williams

Post-Quantum Cryptography PQC attempts to find cryptographic protocols resistant to attacks using Shors polynomial time algorithm for numerical field problems or Grovers algorithm to find the unique input to a black-box function that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Pedro Hecht

To any nilpotent group of class n, one can associate a non-interactive key exchange protocol between n+1 users. The multilinear commutator maps associated to nilpotent groups play a key role in this protocol. In the present paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Delaram Kahrobaei , Mima Stanojkovski

Mathematically constructed S-boxes arise from algebraic structures and finite field theory to ensure strong, provable cryptographic properties. These mathematically grounded constructions allow for generation of thousands of S-Boxes with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 James Kim

A code $X$ is not primitivity preserving if there is a primitive list ${\mathbf w} \in {\tt lists} X$ whose concatenation is imprimitive. We formalize a full characterization of such codes in the binary case in the proof assistant…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Štěpán Holub , Martin Raška , Štěpán Starosta

We describe and present a new construction method for codes using encodings from group rings. They consist primarily of two types: zero-divisor and unit-derived codes. Previous codes from group rings focused on ideals; for example cyclic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-11-01 Paul Hurley , Ted Hurley

This paper presents a perfectly secure matrix multiplication (PSMM) protocol for multiparty computation (MPC) of $\mathrm{A}^{\top}\mathrm{B}$ over finite fields. The proposed scheme guarantees correctness and information-theoretic privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zixuan He , Mohammad Reza Deylam Salehi , Derya Malak , Photios A. Stavrou

The bounded quantum storage model aims to achieve security against computationally unbounded adversaries that are restricted only with respect to their quantum memories. In this work, we provide information-theoretic secure constructions in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Mohammed Barhoush , Louis Salvail

We offer a public key exchange protocol based on a semidirect product of two cyclic (semi)groups of matrices over Z_p. One of the (semi)groups is additive, the other one multiplicative. This allows us to take advantage of both operations on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Nael Rahman , Vladimir Shpilrain

We prove that the symmetric group $S_n$ has a unique minimal cover $\mathcal{M}$ by maximal nilpotent subgroups, and we obtain an explicit and easily computed formula for the order of $\mathcal{M}$. In addition, we prove that the order of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Nick Gill , Ngwava Arphaxad Kimeu , Ian Short

Polar codes are a new class of error correcting linear block codes, whose generator matrix is specified by the knowledge of transmission channel parameters, code length and code dimension. Moreover, regarding computational security, it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-08 Reza Hooshmand

Block ciphers use S-boxes to create confusion in the cryptosystems. Such S-boxes are functions over $\mathbb{F}_{2^{n}}$. These functions should have low differential uniformity, high nonlinearity, and high algebraic degree in order to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Yan-Ping Wang , WeiGuo Zhang , Zhengbang Zha

The construction of the topologically protected code space of Kitaev's model for fault-tolerant quantum computation is extended from complex semisimple to arbitrary finite-dimensional Hopf algebras admitting pairs in involution. One input…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Sebastian Halbig , Ulrich Krähmer