The Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Protocol and non-abelian nilpotent groups

In this paper we study a key exchange protocol similar to the DiffieHellman key exchange protocol, using abelian subgroups of the automorphism group of a non-abelian nilpotent group. We also generalize group no. 92 of the Hall-Senior table [16] to an arbitrary prime p and show that, for those groups, the group of central automorphisms is commutative. We use these for the key exchange we are studying.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Ayan Mahalanobis
• Keywords: CORR 2006, Education, Group, Key Exchange, Key Exchange Protocol