Fixing a problem in the Helsinki protocol

  • Authors:
  • Chris J. Mitchell;Chan Yeob Yeun

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of London, Surrey, UK;Univ. of London, Surrey, UK

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

We consider a recently described attack on a key establishment protocol contained in a draft international standard. Based on an observation as to why the attack is possible, we propose a simple modification to the protocol which avoids the attack.