Paper 2021/583

Entropoids: Groups in Disguise

Lorenz Panny

Abstract

A recent preprint [ePrint 2021/469] suggests the use of exponentiation in a non-associative algebraic structure called "entropoid" to construct post-quantum analogues of DLP-based cryptosystems. In this note, we show a polynomial-time reduction from the entropoid version of DLP to the conventional DLP in the underlying finite field. The resulting attack takes less than 10 minutes on a laptop against parameters suggested in [ePrint 2021/469] for 128-bit post-quantum secure key exchange and runs in polynomial time on a quantum computer. We briefly discuss how to generalize the attack to the generic setting.

Note: Updated following ePrint 2021/896.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
cryptanalysispost-quantum cryptographyentropic quasigroupnon-associative exponentiationlinearization attackdiscrete-logarithm problem
Contact author(s)
lorenz @ yx7 cc
History
2021-07-27: revised
2021-05-04: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2021/583
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/583,
      author = {Lorenz Panny},
      title = {Entropoids: Groups in Disguise},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2021/583},
      year = {2021},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/583}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/583}
}
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