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Re: [TLS] The PAKE question and PSK

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Wed, 02 April 2014 17:26 UTC

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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] The PAKE question and PSK
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On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org> wrote:
>   EKE doesn't do RSA. And, as Nico pointed out, observing a single exchange
> can eliminate a large majority of the potential passwords. Even an infrequent
> use can give an adversary a high probability of successfully determining
> the secret.

But if you use Elligator then that problem goes away.  That's the key point.

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