Paper 2023/594 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2023/594 ↗

Semidirect Product Key Exchange: the State of Play

Christopher Battarbee
Delaram Kahrobaei
Siamak F. Shahandashti
Abstract

Of the many families of cryptographic schemes proposed to be post-quantum, a relatively unexplored set of examples comes from group-based cryptography. One of the more central schemes from this area is the so-called Semidirect Product Key Exchange (SDPKE), a generalisation of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange that is plausibly post-quantum. In this report we survey the state of the literature relating to SDPKE, providing a high-level discussion of security, as well as a comprehensive overview of the proposed platforms and the main cryptanalytic ideas relevant to each.

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Public-key cryptography
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Preprint.
History
2023-04-25: last updated
2023-04-25: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2023/594
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/594,
      author = {Christopher Battarbee and Delaram Kahrobaei and Siamak F. Shahandashti},
      title = {Semidirect Product Key Exchange: the State of Play},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/594},
      year = {2023},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/594}
}
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