Analysis of a key exchange protocol based on tropical matrix algebra
Matvei Kotov, Alexander Ushakov · Journal of Mathematical Cryptology · 2018
Abstract In this paper, we consider a two party key-exchange protocol proposed in [D. Grigoriev and V. Shpilrain, Tropical cryptography , Comm. Algebra 43 (2014), 2624–2632, Section 2], which uses tropical matrix algebra as the platform. Our analysis shows that the scheme is not secure.