2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/136024In this paper we present the first practical attack on the shifted conjugacy-based authentication protocol proposed by P. Dehornoy. We discuss the weaknesses of that primitive and propose ways to improve the protocol.8 pagesGroup TheoryCryptography and SecurityCryptanalysis of shifted conjugacy authentication protocoltext