Public-key cryptography and password protocols

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  • Shai Halevi
    IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
  • Hugo Krawczyk
    Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; and IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

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<jats:p>We study protocols for strong authentication and key exchange in asymmetric scenarios where the authentication server possesses ~a pair of private and public keys while the client has only a weak human-memorizable password as its authentication key. We present and analyze several simple password authentication protocols in this scenario, and show that the security of these protocols can be formally proven based on standard cryptographic assumptions. Remarkably, our analysis shows optimal resistance to off-line password guessing attacks under the choice of suitable public key encryption functions. In addition to user authentication, we describe ways to enhance these protocols to provide two-way authentication, authenticated key exchange, defense against server's compromise, and user anonymity. We complement these results with a proof that strongly indicates that public key techniques are unavoidable for password protocols that resist off-line guessing attacks.</jats:p><jats:p>As a further contribution, we introduce the notion of<jats:italic>public passwords</jats:italic>that enables the use of the above protocols in situations where the client's machine does not have the means to validate the server's public key. Public passwords serve as "hand-held certificates" that the user can carry without the need for specal computing devices.</jats:p>

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