The performance of public key-based authentication protocols

  • Authors:
  • Kaiqi Xiong

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

  • Venue:
  • NSS'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Network and System Security
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Kerberos has revolved over the past 20 years. Kerberos and its variants have been extensively used in a variety of commuting systems since 1999. Among them, there have been several techniques and protocols to integrate public key cryptography into Kerberos. Public-Key Cross Realm Authentication in Kerberos (PKCROSS) is one of these protocols. It has been proposed to simplify the administrative burden of maintaining cross-realm keys so that it improves the scalability of Kerberos in large multi-realm networks. Public Key Utilizing Tickets for Application Servers (PKTAPP) is another protocol that has been suggested to improve the scalability issue of PKCROSS. Performance evaluation is a fundamental consideration in the design of security protocols. But, the performance of these two protocols has been poorly understood in a large-scale network. In this paper, we present an efficient way to study the performance of PKCROSS and PKTAPP. Our thorough performance analysis of these two protocols shows that PKTAPP does not scale better than PKCROSS. In this paper, we report our recent results of when PKCROSS still outperforms than PKTAPP in multiple remote realms.