Improvement of a three-party password-based key exchange protocol with formal verification

Authors

Qi Xie, Hangzhou Normal UniversityFollow
Na Dong, Hangzhou Normal University
Xiao Tang, City University of Hong Kong
Duncan S. Wong, City University of Hong KongFollow
Guilin Wang, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

82936

Publication Details

Xie, Q., Dong, N., Tang, X., Wong, D. S. & Wang, G. (2013). Improvement of a three-party password-based key exchange protocol with formal verification. Information Technology and Control, 42 (3), 231-237.

Abstract

A Three-Party Password-based Authenticated Key Exchange (3PAKE) protocol allows two users to establish a secure session key over an insecure communication channel with the help of a third party, which is a trusted server. Recently, Lou and Huang proposed a 3PAKE which is efficient and suitable for running on resource-constrained devices such as smart cards and mobile phones. In this paper, we show that their scheme is vulnerable to off-line password guessing attack and partition attack. We then propose an efficient method to fix these problems. Additionally, the mutual authentication and session key secrecy of the proposed protocol are verified using a formal verification tool.