Secure Key Exchange and Sessions without Credentials

• Published in: Security and Cryptography for Networks pp. 40 - 56
• Main Authors: Canetti, Ran, Kolesnikov, Vladimir, Rackoff, Charles, Vahlis, Yevgeniy
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2014
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Commitment Scheme; Honest Party; Oblivious Transfer; Random Oracle; Session Protocol

Secure communication is a fundamental cryptographic primitive. Typically, security is achieved by relying on an existing credential infrastructure, such as a PKI or passwords, for identifying the end points to each other. But what can be obtained when no such credential infrastructure is available?...