3 papers
cs.CR2021
PakeMail: authentication and key management in decentralized secure email and messaging via PAKE
Itzel Vazquez Sandoval, Arash Atashpendar, Gabriele Lenzini +1
We propose the use of PAKE for achieving and enhancing entity authentication (EA) and key management (KM) in the context of decentralized end-to-end encrypted email and secure mess…
cs.CR2020
A Formal Security Analysis of the pEp Authentication Protocol for Decentralized Key Distribution and End-to-End Encrypted Email
Itzel Vazquez Sandoval, Gabriele Lenzini
To send encrypted emails, users typically need to create and exchange keys which later should be manually authenticated, for instance, by comparing long strings of characters. Thes…
cs.CR2020
Authentication and Key Management Automation in Decentralized Secure Email and Messaging via Low-Entropy Secrets
Itzel Vazquez Sandoval, Arash Atashpendar, Gabriele Lenzini
We revisit the problem of entity authentication in decentralized end-to-end encrypted email and secure messaging to propose a practical and self-sustaining cryptographic solution b…