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Prompted User Retrieval of Secret Entropy: The Passmaze Protocol

Authors:
Daniel R. L. Brown
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/434
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Abstract: A prompting protocol permits users to securely retrieve secrets with greater entropy than passwords. The retrieved user secrets can have enough entropy to be used to derive cryptographic keys.
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2005-12767,
  title={Prompted User Retrieval of Secret Entropy: The Passmaze Protocol},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={cryptographic protocols / passwords, entropy, secrets,},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/434},
  note={ dbrown@certicom.com 13140 received 28 Nov 2005, last revised 23 Dec 2005},
  author={Daniel R. L. Brown},
  year=2005
}