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Re: [Cfrg] Dragonfly has advantages -> was Re: Requesting removal of CFRG co-chair

Feng Hao <feng.hao@newcastle.ac.uk> Sat, 04 January 2014 15:28 UTC

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From: Feng Hao <feng.hao@newcastle.ac.uk>
To: Paul Lambert <paul@marvell.com>
Thread-Topic: [Cfrg] Dragonfly has advantages -> was Re: Requesting removal of CFRG co-chair
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>I agree that it has more complexity and message exchanges that other
>approaches.  These other protocols have NOT been viable to ship in the
>products I build.

Have you looked at J-PAKE? It's a balanced PAKE, same as Dragonfly.

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/05/29/j-pake/

In the update of "2013-12-30", you can find a prototype implementation of
J-PAKE using the elliptic curve group setting.

Cheers,
Feng

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