Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2008/319

Yet Another Secure Distance-Bounding Protocol

Ventzislav Nikov and Marc Vauclair

Abstract: Distance-bounding protocols have been proposed by Brands and Chaum in 1993 in order to detect \emph{relay attacks}, also known as \emph{mafia fraud}. Although the idea has been introduced fifteen years ago, only recently distance-bounding protocols attracted the attention of the researchers. Several new protocols have been proposed the last five years.

In this paper, a new secure distance-bounding protocol is presented. It is self-contained and composable with other protocols for example for authentication or key-negotiation. It allows periodically execution and achieves better use of the communication channels by exchanging authenticated nonces. The proposed protocol becomes suitable for wider class of devices, since the resource requirements to the prover are relaxed.

Category / Keywords: cryptographic protocols / Distance-Bounding protocols, Relay Attacks, Mafia-Fraud

Publication Info: This is the full version of the paper with the same title in SECRYPT 2008.

Date: received 23 Jul 2008

Contact author: venci nikov at gmail com

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Version: 20080802:134103 (All versions of this report)

Short URL: ia.cr/2008/319

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