Paper 2011/070 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2011/070 ↗
Rational authentication protocols
Abstract
We use ideas from game theory to transform two families of authentication protocols so that even an intruder attacks a protocol, its payoff will still be lower than when it does not. This is particularly useful in resisting or discouraging a powerful and rational intruder (as present in military applications) who makes many attempts to break a protocol because (1) even the intruder fails, a denial of service attack is still mounted successfully, and (2) in a password-based protocol, the chance of a successful attack increases quite significantly as more and more attempts are launched to guess the password.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
PDF- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2011-02-14: last updated
- 2011-02-14: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2011/070
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2011/070,
author = {Long H. Nguyen},
title = {Rational authentication protocols},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2011/070},
year = {2011},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/070}
}