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Password-Based Authenticated Key Exchange in the Three-Party Setting

Authors:
Michel Abdalla
Pierre-Alain Fouque
David Pointcheval
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/233
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Abstract: Password-based authenticated key exchange are protocols which are designed to be secure even when the secret key or password shared between two users is drawn from a small set of values. Due to the low entropy of passwords, such protocols are always subject to on-line guessing attacks. In these attacks, the adversary may succeed with non-negligible probability by guessing the password shared between two users during its on-line attempt to impersonate one of these users. The main goal of password-based authenticated key exchange protocols is to restrict the adversary to this case only. In this paper, we consider password-based authenticated key exchange in the three-party scenario, in which the users trying to establish a secret do not share a password between themselves but only with a trusted server. Towards our goal, we recall some of the existing security notions for password-based authenticated key exchange protocols and introduce new ones that are more suitable to the case of generic constructions. We then present a natural generic construction of a three-party protocol, based on any two-party authenticated key exchange protocol, and prove its security without making use of the Random Oracle model. To the best of our knowledge, the new protocol is the first provably-secure password-based protocol in the three-party setting.
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2004-12203,
  title={Password-Based Authenticated Key Exchange in the Three-Party Setting},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={cryptographic protocols / Password, authenticated key exchange, key distribution, multi-party protocols.},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/233},
  note={ Michel.Abdalla@ens.fr 12674 received 13 Sep 2004},
  author={Michel Abdalla and Pierre-Alain Fouque and David Pointcheval},
  year=2004
}