Cryptanalysis and Improvement of Robust Deniable Authentication Protocol

  • Authors:
  • Fagen Li;Tsuyoshi Takagi

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China 611731 and State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Graduate School of Chi ...;Faculty of Mathematics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan 819-0395

  • Venue:
  • Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

A deniable authentication protocol enables a receiver to identify the source of a given message, but the receiver cannot prove the source of the message to a third party. Recently, Yoon et al. (Wirel Pers Commun 55:81---90, 2010) proposed a robust deniable authentication protocol based on ElGamal cryptosystem. Although they proved that their protocol satisfies the deniable authentication, mutual authentication and confidentiality, we show that their protocol does not satisfy the deniable authentication property. The receiver can prove the source of a given message to a third party. In addition, we propose an improved protocol that removes this weakness.