The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

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Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security

What Do We Mean by Entity Authentication

Author

Dieter Gollman

Entry type

article

Abstract

The design of authentication protocols has proven to be surprisingly error prone. We suggest that this is partly due to a language problem. The objectives of entity authentication are usually given in terms of human encounters while we actualy implement message passing prtotocols. We propose various translations of the high level objectives into a language appropriate for communication protocols. In addition, protocols are often specified at too low a level of abstraction. We will argue that encryption should not be used as a general primitive as it does not capture the specific purpose for using a cryptographic function in a particular protocol.

URL

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/sta ... 502668&isnumber=10940

Key alpha

Gollmann

Publisher

IEEE

Affiliation

University of London

Publication Date

2001-01-01

Language

English

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