A generic variant of NIST's KAS2 key agreement protocol

  • Authors:
  • Sanjit Chatterjee;Alfred Menezes;Berkant Ustaoglu

  • Affiliations:
  • Indian Institute of Science, India;University of Waterloo, Canada;Sabanci University, Turkey

  • Venue:
  • ACISP'11 Proceedings of the 16th Australasian conference on Information security and privacy
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We propose a generic three-pass key agreement protocol that is based on a certain kind of trapdoor one-way function family. When specialized to the RSA setting, the generic protocol yields the so-called KAS2 scheme that has recently been standardized by NIST. On the other hand, when specialized to the discrete log setting, we obtain a new protocol which we call DH2. An interesting feature of DH2 is that parties can use different groups (e.g., different elliptic curves). The generic protocol also has a hybrid implementation, where one party has an RSA key pair and the other party has a discrete log key pair. The security of KAS2 and DH2 is analyzed in an appropriate modification of the extended Canetti-Krawczyk security model.