Research: Towards a formal system-to-system authentication protocol

Authors:
Dimitris Gritzalis;Sokratis Katsikas
Affiliations:
Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean, Samos GR-83200, Greece and Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics & Business, 76 Patision Street, Athens GR-10434, Greece;Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean, Samos GR-83200, Greece
Venue:
Computer Communications
Year:
1996

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Abstract

The problem of system-to-system authentication with the use of a password can be effectively facilitated through the use of either a probabilistic protocol or a zero-knowledge model. A combination of these two into a zero-knowledge probabilistic protocol has been demonstrated to be an efficient alternative approach to this problem. In the present paper, this combined protocol is restructured into a formal system-to-system login and authentication scheme, which is demonstrated to be not only secure but also generic and parametric enough to be usable in environments with different technological platforms and/or operational structures.