Cryptanalysis of the Shpilrain-Ushakov protocol for Thompson's group

DOI10.1007/S00145-007-9016-4zbMATH Open1161.94418arXivmath/0607184OpenAlexW2028757458WikidataQ57460940 ScholiaQ57460940MaRDI QIDQ1021237FDOQ1021237

Authors: Francesco Matucci 

Publication date: 8 June 2009

Published in: Journal of Cryptology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper shows that an eavesdropper can always recover efficiently the private key of one of the two parts of the public key cryptography protocol introduced by Shpilrain and Ushakov in [9]. Thus an eavesdropper can always recover the shared secret key, making the protocol insecure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607184

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zbMATH Keywords

normal formconjugacy probleminfinite groupsdecomposition problempiecewise-linear homeomorphism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cryptography (94A60)

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