Third International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA'05) Volume 2
A New Method for Exchanging Secret Keys
Sydney, Australia
July 04-July 07
ISBN: 0-7695-2316-1
Methods for exchanging secret keys are essential for electronic commerce transactions.In this paper the well-known Diffie-Hellman-method is generalized to non-Abelian groups. The new method is easy to implement and contains the original method as a special case. It is to be expected that it provides higher levels of security than the original method.