Cryptanalysis of MOR and Discrete Logarithms in Inner Automorphism Groups

  • Authors:
  • Anja Korsten

  • Affiliations:
  • Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany 72076

  • Venue:
  • Research in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The MOR cryptosystem was introduced in 2001 as a new public key cryptosystem based on non-abelian groups. This paper demonstrates that the complexity of breaking MOR based on groups of the form $GL(n,q)\times_\theta \mathcal{H}$ ($\mathcal{H}$ a finite abelian group) is (with respect to polynomial reduction) not higher than the complexity of the discrete logarithm problem in small extension fields of . Additionally we consider the construction of a generic attack on MOR.