SPAKE2, a PAKE
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Network Working Group                                            W. Ladd
Internet-Draft                                               UC Berkeley
Intended status: Informational                             B. Kaduk, Ed.
Expires: September 12, 2019                                       Akamai
                                                          March 11, 2019

                             SPAKE2, a PAKE
                       draft-irtf-cfrg-spake2-08

Abstract

   This document describes SPAKE2 and its augmented variant SPAKE2+,
   which are protocols for two parties that share a password to derive a
   strong shared key with no risk of disclosing the password.  This
   method is compatible with any prime order group, is computationally
   efficient, and SPAKE2 (but not SPAKE2+) has a security proof.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Requirements Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   3.  Definition of SPAKE2  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   4.  Key Schedule and Key Confirmation . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   5.  Ciphersuites  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   6.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   7.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   8.  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   9.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   Appendix A.  Algorithm used for Point Generation  . . . . . . . .  11
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13

1.  Introduction

   This document describes SPAKE2, a means for two parties that share a
   password to derive a strong shared key with no risk of disclosing the
   password.  This password-based key exchange protocol is compatible
   with any group (requiring only a scheme to map a random input of
   fixed length per group to a random group element), is computationally
   efficient, and has a security proof.  Predetermined parameters for a
   selection of commonly used groups are also provided for use by other
   protocols.

2.  Requirements Notation

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
   14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

3.  Definition of SPAKE2

3.1.  Setup

   Let G be a group in which the computational Diffie-Hellman (CDH)
   problem is hard.  Suppose G has order p*h where p is a large prime; h
   will be called the cofactor.  Let I be the unit element in G, e.g.,
   the point at infinity if G is an elliptic curve group.  We denote the
   operations in the group additively.  We assume there is a
   representation of elements of G as byte strings: common choices would
   be SEC1 compressed [SEC1] for elliptic curve groups or big endian
   integers of a fixed (per-group) length for prime field DH.  We fix

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   two elements M and N in the prime-order subgroup of G as defined in
   the table in this document for common groups, as well as a generator
   P of the (large) prime-order subgroup of G.  P is specified in the