Re: [Cfrg] SPAKE2+mbDH a PAKE+PKA

Dear Stanislav,

Thank you for these links - they give a slightly new viewpoint on PAKEs applications (I think the most discussed question will be "for which applications will combining public keys and passwords be most useful?").
Yes ... it may be useful as a type of 'introduction' process.

An editorial comment on the description of the protocol in the slides: it seemts that after the second message A should check that "R_B - w*M_B == x_B * P_B", not "R_B == x_B * P_B" as it is shown now. Similarly with the B's check.

And a tiny remark: there is a misprint in the plaintext that A encrypts on sk_AB for the third message: "(x_A, P_A)" should be there, not "(m_A, P_A)".

Many thanks for catching my errors!

I've updated the figures and reposted: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/16/11-16-1142-06-00ai-cryptographic-review-and-pkex.ppt

About the protocol itself, I'll try my best to give you our opinion today or tomorrow.

At a glance, it seems to be useful to add some specific requirements for the used "encrypt" functions now or some concrete cipher modes (e.g. GCM or CTR + HMAC)

Yes, this is not clear. The notation slide mentions  AEAD encryption but could say more on requirements. The 'additional data' is not being used, so AEAD is not strictly required. For concrete examples, I'm considering AES-SIV or GCM-SIV or something similar.

due to the words "decrypt is successful" (is it a real data authentication or just some padding check?). EMVco used to check PIN-blocks just by correctness of ECB decryption of IUN, so we should have more details here.

Yes, exactly.  The decryption provides the validity check for the password based authentication and does need a better description.

Best Regards,

Paul

Kindest regards,
Stanislav

2016-09-29 4:25 GMT+03:00 Paul Lambert <paul@marvell.com<mailto:paul@marvell.com>>:

The PKEX protocol ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-harkins-pkex-00 )
provides PAKE functionality (with SPAKE2) and adds public key
authentication (PAKE+PKA).

In looking at alternatives to PKEX, combining an existing and evaluated
authenticated public key exchange with a PAKE seems like an interesting
design path. To this end, the SPAKE2 protocol (
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-cfrg-spake2-03 ) combines nicely
with mutually blinded Diffie-Hellman (mbDH). Blinded DH (bDH) is described
in https://www.emvco.com/specifications.aspx?id=285

A brief description of the resulting SPAKE2+mbDH protocol is contained in
slides 13 to 18 of:

        https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/16/11-16-1142-04-00ai-cryptographic-rev
iew-and-pkex.ppt

Comments would be appreciated.

If this protocol seems useful an RFC could be developed.

Paul

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