Kamal, Abdel Alim and Youssef, Amr M. (2013) Cryptanalysis of Álvarez et al. key exchange scheme. Information Sciences, 223 . pp. 317-321. ISSN 00200255
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Abstract
Álvarez et al., Information Sciences 179 (12) (2009) proposed a new key exchange scheme where the secret key is obtained by multiplying powers of block upper triangular matrices whose elements are defined over Zp. In this note, we show that breaking this system with security parameters (r,s,p) is equivalent to solving a set of 3(r+s)2 linear equations with 2(r+s)2 unknowns in Zp, which renders this system insecure for all the suggested practical choices of the security parameters.
| Divisions: | Concordia University > Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science > Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering |
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| Item Type: | Article |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Authors: | Kamal, Abdel Alim and Youssef, Amr M. |
| Journal or Publication: | Information Sciences |
| Date: | 2013 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | 10.1016/j.ins.2012.10.010 |
| Keywords: | Key exchange; Cryptanalysis; Block upper triangular matrices; Non-abelian groups |
| ID Code: | 976801 |
| Deposited By: | Danielle Dennie |
| Deposited On: | 28 Jan 2013 13:26 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2018 17:43 |
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