Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2010/237

A New Security Model for Authenticated Key Agreement

Augustin P. Sarr and Philippe Elbaz–Vincent and Jean–Claude Bajard

Abstract: The Canetti--Krawczyk (CK) and extended Canetti--Krawczyk (eCK) security models, are widely used to provide security arguments for key agreement protocols. We discuss security shades in the (e)CK models, and some practical attacks unconsidered in (e)CK--security arguments. We propose a strong security model which encompasses the eCK one. We also propose a new protocol, called Strengthened MQV (SMQV), which in addition to provide the same efficiency as the (H)MQV protocols, is particularly suited for distributed implementations wherein a tamper--proof device is used to store long--lived keys, while session keys are used on an untrusted host machine. The SMQV protocol meets our security definition under the Gap Diffie--Hellman assumption and the Random Oracle model.

Category / Keywords: authenticated key agreement, practical vulnerability, strengthened eCK model, SMQV

Publication Info: A short version of this paper is accepted at SCN 2010

Date: received 27 Apr 2010, last revised 5 Jan 2012

Contact author: a sarr at netheos net, augussarr@yahoo fr,

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Short URL: ia.cr/2010/237

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