An attack on the Needham-Schroeder public-key authentication protocol
The work
| Authors | Gavin Lowe |
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| Type | article |
| Year | 1995 |
| Citekey | lowe1995attack |
Where it appeared
| Published in | Information Processing Letters |
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| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 131--133 |
Identifiers
| DOI | 10.1016/0020-0190(95)00144-2 |
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Access
| Landing page | https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-0190(95)00144-2 |
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Related
| Distinct from | lowe1996breaking |
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Abstract
In this paper we present an attack upon the Needham-Schroeder public-key authentication protocol. The attack allows an intruder to impersonate another agent.
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Cite it as
@article{lowe1995attack,
title = {An attack on the Needham-Schroeder public-key authentication protocol},
author = {Gavin Lowe},
year = {1995},
journal = {Information Processing Letters},
publisher = {Elsevier},
volume = {56},
number = {3},
pages = {131--133},
doi = {10.1016/0020-0190(95)00144-2},
}
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