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SRDS
1993
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Some Remarks on Protecting Weak Keys and Poorly-Chosen Secrets from Guessing Attacks
Authentication and key distribution protocols that utilize weak secrets (such as passwords and PINs) are traditionally susceptible to guessing attacks whereby an adversary iterate...
Gene Tsudik, Els Van Herreweghen
JCSS
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Password-based authentication and key distribution protocols with perfect forward secrecy
In an open networking environment, a workstation usually needs to identify its legal users for providing its services. Kerberos provides an efficient approach whereby a trusted th...
Hung-Min Sun, Her-Tyan Yeh
DICTA
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Biometric Based Cryptographic Key Generation from Faces
Existing asymmetric encryption algorithms require the storage of the secret private key. Stored keys are often protected by poorly selected user passwords that can either be guess...
B. Chen, V. Chandran
SP
1997
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Number Theoretic Attacks on Secure Password Schemes
Encrypted Key Exchange (EKE) [1, 2] allows two parties sharing a password to exchange authenticated information over an insecure network by using a combination of public and secre...
Sarvar Patel
CRYPTO
2006
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Mitigating Dictionary Attacks on Password-Protected Local Storage
We address the issue of encrypting data in local storage using a key that is derived from the user's password. The typical solution in use today is to derive the key from the...
Ran Canetti, Shai Halevi, Michael Steiner