Abstract
The notion of deniability ensures that the transcript generated in an interactive protocol does not yield any evidence of the interaction. In the context of key-exchange protocols for secure message transmission, the notion of deniability is well-explored. On the other hand, a secret handshake protocol enables a group of authorized users to establish a shared secret key and authenticate each other. Recently, a framework for deniable secret handshake is proposed by Tian et al. in ISPEC 2018. We analyze the protocol, show three flaws and give solutions to prevent them.
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The first author is financially supported by Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India under a research fellowship program. The work presented in this paper was carried out while the first author visited Kyushu University, Japan. The second author is financially supported by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan under an International Exchange Program. The third author is partially supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research KAKENHI (C) JP18K11297.
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Panja, S., Dutta, S., Sakurai, K. (2020). Deniable Secret Handshake Protocol - Revisited. In: Barolli, L., Takizawa, M., Xhafa, F., Enokido, T. (eds) Advanced Information Networking and Applications. AINA 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 926. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15032-7_106
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