Remarks on a Tropical Key Exchange System
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2021
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Abstract
We consider a key-exchange protocol based on matrices over a tropical semiring which was recently proposed in [2]. We show that a particular private parameter of that protocol can be recovered with a simple binary search, rendering it insecure.
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© 2020 D. Rudy and C. Monico, published by De Gruyter.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Tropical Algebra, Public Key Exchange, Cryptanalysis
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Rudy, Dylan and Monico, Chris. "Remarks on a Tropical Key Exchange System: " Journal of Mathematical Cryptology, vol. 15, no. 1, 2021, pp. 280-283. https://doi.org/10.1515/jmc-2019-0061