On applications of singular matrices over finite fields in cryptography

  • Authors:
  • Dhirendra Singh Yadav;Rajendra K. Sharma;Wagish Shukla

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India;Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India;Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

  • Venue:
  • InfoSecHiComNet'11 Proceedings of the First international conference on Security aspects in information technology
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to exhibit the use of singular matrices over finite fields in cryptography. Using these matrices, we propose a key exchange method in which two users over an insecure channel want to agree upon a secret key to be used in some private key cryptosystem.