## CryptoDB

### Paper: Fast generators for the Diffie-Hellman key agreement protocol and malicious standards

Authors: Boaz Tsaban URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/231 Search ePrint Search Google The Diffie-Hellman key agreement protocol is based on taking large powers of a generator of a prime-order cyclic group. Some generators allow faster exponentiation. We show that to a large extent, using the fast generators is as secure as using a randomly chosen generator. On the other hand, we show that if there is some case in which fast generators are less secure, then this could be used by a malicious authority to generate a standard for the Diffie-Hellman key agreement protocol which has a hidden trapdoor.
##### BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2005-12566,
title={Fast generators for the Diffie-Hellman key agreement protocol and malicious standards},
booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
keywords={public-key cryptography / Diffie-Hellman key agreement},
url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/231},
note={ boaz.tsaban@weizmann.ac.il 12989 received 18 Jul 2005, last revised 25 Jul 2005},
author={Boaz Tsaban},
year=2005
}