[Resource Topic] 2023/1904: Generalized Kotov-Ushakov Attack on Tropical Stickel Protocol Based on Modified Circulants

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Title:
Generalized Kotov-Ushakov Attack on Tropical Stickel Protocol Based on Modified Circulants

Authors: Sulaiman Alhussaini, Craig Collett, Serge˘ı Sergeev

Abstract:

After the Kotov-Ushakov attack on the tropical implementation of Stickel protocol, various attempts have been made to create a secure variant of such implementation. Some of these attempts used a special class of commuting matrices resembling tropical circulants, and they have been proposed with claims of resilience against the Kotov-Ushakov attack, and even being potential post-quantum candidates. This paper, however, reveals that a form of the Kotov-Ushakov attack remains applicable and, moreover, there is a heuristic implementation of that attack which has a polynomial time complexity and shows an overwhelmingly good success rate.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1904

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