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On the Security of HB# against a Man-in-the-Middle Attack

Ouafi, Khaled  
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Overbeck, Raphael
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Vaudenay, Serge  
2008
Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2008
ASIACRYPT 2008

At EuroCrypt ’08, Gilbert, Robshaw and Seurin proposed HB# to improve on HB+ in terms of transmission cost and security against man-in-the-middle attacks. Although the security of HB# is formally proven against a certain class of man- in-the-middle adversaries, it is only conjectured for the general case. In this paper, we present a general man-in-the-middle attack against HB# and Random-HB#, which can also be applied to all anterior HB-like protocols, that recovers the shared secret in 225 or 220 authentication rounds for HB# and 234 or 228 for Random-HB#, depending on the parameter set. We further show that the asymptotic complexity of our attack is polynomial under some conditions on the parameter set which are met on one of those proposed in [8].

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-89255-7_8
Web of Science ID

WOS:000263142700008

Author(s)
Ouafi, Khaled  
Overbeck, Raphael
Vaudenay, Serge  
Date Issued

2008

Publisher

Springer

Publisher place

Berlin

Published in
Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2008
Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 5350

Start page

108

End page

124

Subjects

HB

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authentication protocols

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RFID

URL

URL

http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/conferences/asiacrypt2008/
Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
LASEC  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
ASIACRYPT 2008

Melbourne, Australia

December 7 - 11, 2008

Available on Infoscience
December 11, 2008
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/32613
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