Towards a formal system-to-system authentication protocol

Computer Communications

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 954-961

  Gritzalis, Dimitris ^a,b   Katsikas, Sokratis ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Authentication; Passwords; Probabilistic protocols; Zero knowledge protocols

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); PROBABILITY;

PASSWORDS; SYSTEM TO SYSTEM AUTHENTICATION; ZERO KNOWLEDGE PROBABILISTIC PROTOCOL;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0030265092     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-3664(96)01139-5     Document Type: Article

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