[Cryptography] Are there other anonymous key exchange algorithms?

Hanno Böck hanno at hboeck.de
Sat May 17 12:46:33 EDT 2014


On Sat, 17 May 2014 14:29:21 +0200
Miroslav Kratochvil <exa.exa at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

When you're asking about usable (== well tested and deployed in
real-worl protocols) key exchanges there really is only DH either in
prime fields or elliptic curves.

There exists NTRU-KE [1], but ntru is patented and it should probably
be considere highly experimental.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/718.pdf

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