Title :
Augmented encrypted key exchange using RSA encryption
Author :
Barmawi, Ari Musriami ; Takada, Shingo ; Doi, Norihisa
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Keio Univ., Kanagawa, Japan
Abstract :
The augmented encrypted key exchange (A-EKE) uses a shared secret key for encryption. The A-EKE uses the hash of sender´s password as the shared secret key. By using Simmon´s attack the sender´s password can be broken. If this is accomplished, the attacker is able to know the communicating parties session key used after authentication as well as in the authentication of the sender. Furthermore, using the broken session key and the password, the attacker can impersonate the real sender. To prevent this from happening, we propose a method to keep the session key and sender´s password secret even if the attacker can break the shared secret key. This is accomplished by using RSA encryption. In our proposed scheme we use public keys which will be kept by the communicating parties and will be exchanged indirectly, i.e. instead of sending the whole public key the two parties will send the number which determines their public key, along with the shared key
Keywords :
message authentication; public key cryptography; RSA encryption; Simmon´s attack; augmented encrypted key exchange; broken session key; communicating parties session key; public keys; sender authentication; sender password; shared secret key; Authentication; Computer science; Computer security; Cryptography; Galois fields; Information science; Public key;
Conference_Titel :
Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 1997. Waves of the Year 2000. PIMRC '97., The 8th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Helsinki
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3871-5
DOI :
10.1109/PIMRC.1997.631052