Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2005/434
Prompted User Retrieval of Secret Entropy: The Passmaze Protocol
Daniel R. L. Brown
Abstract. A prompting protocol permits users to securely retrieve secrets with
greater entropy than passwords. The retrieved user secrets can have
enough entropy to be used to derive cryptographic keys.
Category / Keywords. cryptographic protocols / passwords, entropy, secrets,
Date: received 28 Nov 2005, last revised 23 Dec 2005
Contact author: dbrown at certicom com
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Comment. Minor clarifications and corrections.
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