Abstract
Recently, an efficient password-authenticated key exchange protocol based on RSA has been proposed by Park et al. with formal security proof. In this letter, we analyze their protocol, and show that, unfortunately, it is insecure against an adversary who performs a dictionary attack.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 339-342 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Information Processing Letters |
Volume | 108 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2008 Nov 30 |
Keywords
- Cryptography
- Dictionary attack
- Key exchange
- Password
- RSA
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Signal Processing
- Information Systems
- Computer Science Applications