A remark on MAKE -- a Matrix Action Key Exchange
arXiv:2012.00283v13 citations
AI Analysis
This paper identifies a critical vulnerability in a newly proposed key-exchange protocol, preventing its potential adoption for secure communication.
This paper demonstrates that the MAKE key-exchange protocol, proposed by Rahman and Shpilrain, is insecure. The authors successfully broke the challenge problem associated with MAKE in under a second.
In a recent paper [arXiv:2009.00716], Rahman and Shpilrain proposed a new key-exchange protocol MAKE based on external semidirect product of groups. The purpose of this paper is to show that the key exchange protocol is insecure. We were able to break their challenge problem in under a second.