Algebraic Attack on the MQQ Public Key Cryptosystem

Abstract. In this paper, we present an efficient attack on the multivariate Quadratic Quasigroups (MQQ) public key cryptosystem. Our cryptanalysis breaks the MQQ cryptosystem by solving a system of multivariate quadratic polynomial equations using both the MutantXL algorithm and the F4 algorithm. We present the experimental results that show that MQQ systems is broken up to size n equal to 300. Based on these results we show also that MutantXL solves MQQ systems with much less memory than the F4 algorithm implemented in Magma.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: CANS
• Authors: Mohamed Saied Emam Mohamed, Jintai Ding, Johannes Buchmann, Fabian Werner
• Keywords: CANS 2009, Cryptology, Multivariate Quadratic Polynomial, Multivariate Quadratic Quasigroups, Public Key Cryptosystem