IACR News item: 12 January 2015
Jintai Ding, Alexei Miasnikov, Alexander Ushakov
ePrint Report
In this paper we analyze the Kahrobaei-Lam-Shpilrain (KLS) key
exchange protocols that use extensions by endomorpisms of matrices over a Galois field
proposed in 2014.
We show that both protocols are vulnerable to a simple linear algebra attack.
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