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
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ITNG.2006.103
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 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||