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A client puzzle based public-key authentication and key establishment protocol.

Fung Chun-Kan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-114). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.iv / List of Figures --- p.viii / List of Tables --- p.x / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Motivations and Objectives --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Authentication Protocol --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Security Technologies --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- Cryptography --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3.2 --- Digital Certificate --- p.7 / Chapter 1.3.3 --- One-way Hash Function --- p.8 / Chapter 1.3.4 --- Digital Signature --- p.9 / Chapter 1.4 --- Thesis Organization --- p.9 / Chapter 2 --- Related Work --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Authentication and Key Establishment Protocols --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3 --- Denial-of-Service Attack Handling Methods --- p.15 / Chapter 2.4 --- Attacks on Authentication and Key Establishment Protocol --- p.18 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Denial-of-Service Attack --- p.19 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Replay Attack --- p.19 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Man-in-the middle Attack --- p.21 / Chapter 2.4.4 --- Chosen-text Attack --- p.22 / Chapter 2.4.5 --- Interleaving Attack --- p.23 / Chapter 2.4.6 --- Reflection Attack --- p.25 / Chapter 2.5 --- Summary --- p.27 / Chapter 3 --- A DoS-resistant Authentication and Key Establishment Protocol --- p.29 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.29 / Chapter 3.2 --- Protocol Notations --- p.30 / Chapter 3.3 --- Protocol Descriptions --- p.30 / Chapter 3.4 --- An Improved Client Puzzle Protocol --- p.37 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Review of Juels-Brainard Protocol --- p.37 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Weaknesses of Juels-Brainard Protocol and Proposed Improvements --- p.39 / Chapter 3.4.3 --- Improved Client Puzzle Protocol --- p.42 / Chapter 3.5 --- Authentication Framework --- p.43 / Chapter 3.5.1 --- Client Architecture --- p.44 / Chapter 3.5.2 --- Server Architecture --- p.47 / Chapter 3.6 --- Implementations --- p.49 / Chapter 3.6.1 --- Software and Programming Tools --- p.49 / Chapter 3.6.2 --- The Message Formats --- p.50 / Chapter 3.5.3 --- Browser Interface --- p.51 / Chapter 3.6.4 --- Calculation of the Difficulty Level --- p.53 / Chapter 3.6.5 --- "(C, t) Non-Existence Verification" --- p.56 / Chapter 3.7 --- Summary --- p.57 / Chapter 4 --- Security Analysis and Formal Proof --- p.58 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.58 / Chapter 4.2 --- Security Analysis --- p.59 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Denial-of-Service Attacks --- p.59 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Replay Attacks.........; --- p.60 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Chosen-text Attacks --- p.60 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Interleaving Attacks --- p.61 / Chapter 4.2.5 --- Others --- p.62 / Chapter 4.3 --- Formal Proof Methods --- p.62 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- General-purpose Specification Languages and Verification Tools --- p.62 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Expert System Approach --- p.63 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Modal Logic Approach --- p.64 / Chapter 4.3.4 --- Algebraic Term-Rewriting Approach --- p.66 / Chapter 4.4 --- Formal Proof of the Proposed Protocol --- p.66 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Notations --- p.67 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- The Proof --- p.68 / Chapter 4.5 --- Summary --- p.73 / Chapter 5 --- Experimental Results and Analysis --- p.75 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.75 / Chapter 5.2 --- Experimental Environment --- p.75 / Chapter 5.3 --- Experiments --- p.77 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Computational Performance of the Puzzle Solving Operation at different Difficulty Levels --- p.77 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Computational Performance of the Puzzle Generation and Puzzle Solution Verification --- p.79 / Chapter 5.3.3 --- Computational Performance of the Protocol Cryptographic Operations --- p.82 / Chapter 5.3.4 --- Computational Performance of the Overall Protocol Session --- p.84 / Chapter 5.3.5 --- Impact on the Server Load without Client Puzzles --- p.85 / Chapter 5.3.6 --- Impact on the Server Load with Client Puzzles --- p.88 / Chapter 5.3.7 --- Impact on the Server Response Time from the Puzzles --- p.97 / Chapter 5.4 --- Summary --- p.100 / Chapter 6 --- Conclusion and Future Work --- p.101 / Chapter 6.1 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.101 / Chapter 6.2 --- Contributions --- p.103 / Chapter 6.3 --- Future Work --- p.104 / Bibliography --- p.105

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_323893
Date January 2002
ContributorsFung, Chun-Kan., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Computer Science and Engineering.
Source SetsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, bibliography
Formatprint, x, 114 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
RightsUse of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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