Paper 2025/1677

Diffie–Hellman Key Exchange from Commutativity to Group Laws

Dung Hoang Duong, University of Wollongong
Youming Qiao, University of Technology Sydney
Chuanqi Zhang, University of Technology Sydney
Abstract

In Diffie–Hellman key exchange, the commutativity of power operations is instrumental in the agreement of keys. Viewing commutativity as a law in abelian groups, we propose Diffie–Hellman key exchange in the group action framework (Brassard–Yung, Crypto'90; Ji–Qiao–Song–Yun, TCC'19), for actions of non-abelian groups with laws. The security of this protocol is shown, following Fischlin, Günther, Schmidt, and Warinschi (IEEE S&P'16), based on a pseudorandom group action assumption. A concrete instantiation is proposed based on the monomial code equivalence problem.

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Cryptographic protocols
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Preprint.
Keywords
key exchangegroup actionsgroup lawscode equivalencenon-abelian groups
Contact author(s)
hduong @ uow edu au
Youming Qiao @ uts edu au
Chuanqi Zhang @ uts edu au
History
2025-09-18: approved
2025-09-16: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2025/1677
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2025/1677,
      author = {Dung Hoang Duong and Youming Qiao and Chuanqi Zhang},
      title = {Diffie–Hellman Key Exchange from Commutativity to Group Laws},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2025/1677},
      year = {2025},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1677}
}
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