Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2008/042

Trusted-HB: a low-cost version of HB+ secure against Man-in-The-Middle attacks

Julien Bringer and Herve Chabanne

Abstract: Since the introduction at Crypto'05 by Juels and Weis of the protocol HB+, a lightweight protocol secure against active attacks but only in a detection based-model, many works have tried to enhance its security. We propose here a new approach to achieve resistance against Man-in-The-Middle attacks. Our requirements - in terms of extra communications and hardware - are surprisingly low.

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Publication Info: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory on 2007, December the 21st

Date: received 23 Jan 2008

Contact author: julien bringer at sagem com

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