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EPSRC Reference: GR/L78505/01
Title: AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOLS WITH ASYMMETRIC COMPUTING REQUIREMENTS
Principal Investigator: Wild, Professor P
Other Investigators:
Murphy, Professor S Gollmann, Dr D
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Department: Mathematics
Organisation: Royal Holloway, Univ of London
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 29 June 1998 Ends: 28 June 2001 Value (£): 119,591
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Digital Signal Processing Logic & Combinatorics
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In this project we aim to design, implement and test authentication protocols for use in environment where one of the participants provides a dominant proportion of the computing power and/or computation may need to be distributed. An authentication protocol is an exchange of messages between two parties that provides assurance, usually through the use of a secret key, to one or both of them concerning the integrity of the received messages, i.e. that they originated with the other user and that the message content has not been altered in transit. The programme concerns the study of authentication mechanisms for which the relevant computations are amenable to decomposition and therefore could be distributed. An important aspect of the research will deal with how an entity with limited computing resources can use an insecure auxiliary device for performing intensive computations required for cryptographic functions without revealing (any of) its secret information. Our goal is to develop more efficient and more secure authentication protocols for implementation on such devices as smartcards and in distributed computing environments. More secure mobile radio communications and the broadening of the scope for applications in electronic commerce are just two of the benefits of such developments.
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