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Third International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG'06)
On the Security of a Repaired Mental Poker Protocol
Las Vegas, Nevada
April 10-April 12
ISBN: 0-7695-2497-4
Jordi Castella-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona
Francesc Sebe, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona
In 2003, Zhao, Varadharajan and Mu proposed a mental poker protocol whose security was shown to be flawed in 2004: any player (or any outsider knowing the deck coding) is able to decrypt encrypted cards without knowing the encryption key. In 2005, the first two authors published a repaired version of this TTP-free mental poker protocol. We show here that this second version is also flawed: the first player can find all cleartexts of the final encrypted shuffled deck of cards. Both protocols are similar to Shamir-Rivest-Adleman?s mental poker, but they replace an exponential commutative cipher with an ElGamal-like commutative cipher. We conclude that changing the underlying commutative cipher is the reason of their weakness.
Index Terms:
Security protocols, Mental poker, Cryptanalysis.
Citation:
Jordi Castella-Roca, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Francesc Sebe, "On the Security of a Repaired Mental Poker Protocol," itng, pp.664-668, Third International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG'06), 2006
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