Secure password-based authenticated key exchange for web services

  • Authors:
  • Liang Fang;Samuel Meder;Olivier Chevassut;Frank Siebenlist

  • Affiliations:
  • Indiana University;University of Chicago;Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory;Argonne National Laboratory

  • Venue:
  • SWS '04 Proceedings of the 2004 workshop on Secure web service
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper discusses an implementation of an authenticated key-exchange method rendered on message primitives defined in the WS-Trust and WS-SecureConversation specifications. This IEEE-specified cryptographic method (AuthA) is proven-secure for password-based authentication and key exchange, while the WS-Trust and WS-SecureConversation are emerging Web Services Security specifications that extend the WS-Security specification. A prototype of the presented protocol is integrated in the WS-ResourceFramework-compliant Globus Toolkit V4. Further hardening of the implementation is expected to result in a version that will be shipped with future Globus Toolkit releases. This could help address the current unavailability of decent shared-secret-based authentication options in the Web Services and Grid world. Future work will be to integrate One-Time-Password (OTP) features in the authentication protocol.