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Polycyclic groups: A new platform for cryptology?

Bettina Eick, Delaram Kahrobaei

math.GRarXiv:math/0411077

Abstract

We propose a new cryptosystem based on polycyclic groups. The cryptosystem is based on the fact that the word problem can be solved effectively in polycyclic groups, while the known solutions to the conjugacy problem are far less efficient.

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