[Cryptography] Are there other anonymous key exchange algorithms?

tpb-crypto at laposte.net tpb-crypto at laposte.net
Sat May 17 20:45:03 EDT 2014


> Message du 17/05/14 18:37
> De : "Miroslav Kratochvil" 
>
> Hello list,
> 
> so there has recently been a discussion about solving some previously
> unsolvable examples of discrete logarithm on slashdot [1] (not
> particularly harmful for cryptography though), which mostly made me to
> finally ask about this.
> 
> The big question:
> Is there any other anonymous key exchange algorithm than Diffie-Hellman?
> 
> Or any other good method (preferably post-quantum) that would allow
> perfect forward secrecy without D-H?
> 

McEliece? Niederreiter? HFE? QUAD? UOV? NTRU?

Pick your choice, there's plenty of such algorithms, none is a defined standard, however. McEliece is the most studied so far and NTRU is the smallest and fastest.


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