Title
Towards generating secure keys for braid cryptography
Abstract
Braid cryptosystem was proposed in CRYPTO 2000 as an alternate public-key cryptosystem. The security of this system is based upon the conjugacy problem in braid groups. Since then, there have been several attempts to break the braid cryptosystem by solving the conjugacy problem in braid groups. In this article, we first survey all the major attacks on the braid cryptosystem and conclude that the attacks were successful because the current ways of random key generation almost always result in weaker instances of the conjugacy problem. We then propose several alternate ways of generating hard instances of the conjugacy problem for use braid cryptography.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/s10623-007-9123-0
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Braid groups,Conjugacy problem,Braid cryptography,94A60,20F36,20F10
Journal
45
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0925-1022
13
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.82
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ki Hyoung Ko122720.76
Jang-Won Lee2342.94
Tony Thomas3130.82