Short expressions of permutations as products and cryptanalysis of the Algebraic Eraser

Advances in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 57-76

  Kalka, Arkadius ^a,b   Teicher, Mina ^a   Tsaban, Boaz ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR MATHEMATIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algebraic Eraser; Colored Burau Key Agreement Protocol (CBKAP); Expander; Expressions of permutations; Minimal Cycle Conjecture; Symmetric group

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC ERASER; EXPANDER; EXPRESSIONS OF PERMUTATIONS; KEY AGREEMENT PROTOCOL; MINIMAL CYCLE CONJECTURE; SYMMETRIC GROUPS;

EXPERIMENTS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; TIN;

ALGEBRA;

EID: 84861596547     PISSN: 01968858     EISSN: 10902074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aam.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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