RE: passwords

It turns out that this was a very good way to advertise Bellovin-Merrit's
work. So I got no single answer to whether an implementation exists
or about its potential usability within SSL. Instead I got eight personal
messages asking for the reference to the papers.
There are two papers on this subject by these authors.
They call the technique "encrypted key exchange".
The first paper appeared in Oakland conference 1992, the second
in ACM Security 1993.
I found an on-line version of both papers under
http://www.alw.nih.gov/Security/first-papers.html
Look for the phrase "encrypted key exchange" (the papers are NOT
listed under the "password" section of that page).

Anyway, if anyone has an answer to my previous posting I'll
be glad to hear.

Hugo

Received on Wednesday, 27 November 1996 16:19:47 UTC