Paper 2021/1494 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2021/1494 ↗
On the efficiency of a general attack against the MOBS cryptosystem
Abstract
All instances of the semidirect key exchange protocol, a generalisation of the famous Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol, satisfy the so-called ``telescoping equality''; in some cases, this equality has been used to construct an attack. In this report we present computational evidence suggesting that an instance of the scheme called `MOBS (Matrices Over Bitstrings)' is an example of a scheme where the telescoping equality has too many solutions to be a practically viable means to conduct an attack.
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- Available format(s)
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- Public-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2021-11-15: last updated
- 2021-11-15: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2021/1494
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/1494,
author = {Christopher Battarbee and Delaram Kahrobaei and Dylan Tailor and Siamak F. Shahandashti},
title = {On the efficiency of a general attack against the MOBS cryptosystem},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2021/1494},
year = {2021},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1494}
}