Cryptographic protocol for remote authentication

Details Cryptographic protocol for remote authentication Cryptographic protocol for remote authentication

1993-08-23

1995-08-08

Swann, Tod R.

Cryptography

Particular algorithmic function encoding

Nbs/des algorithm

380 30, H04K 100

Patent

active

054406358

ABSTRACT:
A cryptographic communication system is disclosed which permits computer users to authenticate themselves to a computer system without requiring that the computer system keep confidential the password files used to authenticate the respective user's identities. The invention is useful in that it prevents a compromised password file from being leveraged by crafty hackers to penetrate the computer system.

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patent: 5241599 (1993-08-01), Bellovin et al.
patent: 5345506 (1994-09-01), Tsubakiyama et al.
"Password Security: A Case History", by R. Morris and K. Thompson, Communications of the ACM, vol. 22 No. 11, pp. 594-597, Nov. 1979.

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