Towards a provably secure DoS-Resilient key exchange protocol with perfect forward secrecy
Kuppusamy, Lakshmi, Rangasamy, Jothi, Stebila, Douglas, Boyd, Colin, & Nieto, Juan Gonzalez (2011) Towards a provably secure DoS-Resilient key exchange protocol with perfect forward secrecy. In Bernstein, Daniel J. & Chatterjee, Sanjit (Eds.) Indocrypt 2011, Springer, Chennai, India, pp. 379-398.
Just Fast Keying (JFK) is a simple, efficient and secure key exchange protocol proposed by Aiello et al. (ACM TISSEC, 2004). JFK is well known for its novel design features, notably its resistance to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Using Meadows’ cost-based framework, we identify a new DoS vulnerability in JFK. The JFK protocol is claimed secure in the Canetti-Krawczyk model under the Decisional Diffie-Hellman (DDH) assumption. We show that security of the JFK protocol, when reusing ephemeral Diffie-Hellman keys, appears to require the Gap Diffie-Hellman (GDH) assumption in the random oracle model. We propose a new variant of JFK that avoids the identified DoS vulnerability and provides perfect forward secrecy even under the DDH assumption, achieving the full security promised by the JFK protocol.
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|Item Type:||Conference Paper|
|Keywords:||Denial of service, Meadows’ cost-based framework, Just Fast Keying, client puzzles, key agreement, perfect forward secrecy|
|Subjects:||Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES (080000) > COMPUTER SOFTWARE (080300) > Computer System Security (080303)|
|Divisions:||Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Faculty of Science and Technology
Past > Institutes > Information Security Institute
|Copyright Owner:||Copyright 2011 Springer|
|Copyright Statement:||This is the author-version of the work. Conference proceedings published, by Springer Verlag, will be available via Lecture Notes in Computer Science http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/|
|Deposited On:||19 Dec 2011 22:08|
|Last Modified:||18 Jul 2014 18:08|
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