A Closer Look at the Tropical Cryptography

11/28/2020

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by   Steve Isaac, et al.

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We examine two public key exchange protocols proposed recently by Grigoriev and Shpilrain (arXiv:1811.06386), which use tropical algebra. We introduce a fast attack on the first protocol, and we show that the second protocol cannot be implemented as described.