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An Offline Dictionary Attack Against zkPAKE Protocol

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Password Authenticated Key Exchange (PAKE) allows a user to establish a secure cryptographic key with a server, using only knowledge of a pre-shared password. One of the basic security requirements of PAKE is to prevent offline dictionary attacks.In this paper, we revisit zkPAKE, an augmented PAKE that has been recently proposed by Mochetti, Resende, and Aranha (SBSeg 2015). Our work shows that the zkPAKE protocol is prone to offline password guessing attack, even in the presence of an adversary that has only eavesdropping capabilities. Results of performance evaluation show that our attack is practical and efficient. Therefore, zkPAKE is insecure and should not be used as a password-authenticated key exchange mechanism.
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hal-03744290 , version 1 (02-08-2022)

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José Becerra, Peter Ryan, Petra Šala, Marjan Škrobot. An Offline Dictionary Attack Against zkPAKE Protocol. 34th IFIP International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (SEC), Jun 2019, Lisbon, Portugal. pp.81-90, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-22312-0_6⟩. ⟨hal-03744290⟩
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