Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2005/434

Prompted User Retrieval of Secret Entropy: The Passmaze Protocol

Daniel R. L. Brown

Abstract: A prompting protocol permits users to securely retrieve secrets with greater entropy than passwords. The retrieved user secrets can have enough entropy to be used to derive cryptographic keys.

Category / Keywords: cryptographic protocols / passwords, entropy, secrets,

Date: received 28 Nov 2005, last revised 23 Dec 2005

Contact author: dbrown at certicom com

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Note: Minor clarifications and corrections.

Version: 20051223:153113 (All versions of this report)

Short URL: ia.cr/2005/434

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