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In 2004, Popescu proposed an efficient and secure key agreement protocol based on the Diffie-Hellman key agreement, which works in an elliptic curve group. The protocol, however, is still susceptible to a key-compromise impersonation attack, a reflection attack, and a replay attack. Accordingly, the current paper demonstrates the vulnerability of Popescu’s protocol against such attacks and then an improved protocol is presented in order to resolve such problems.
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Yoon, EJ., Yoo, KY. (2006). An Improved Popescu’s Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol. In: Gavrilova, M.L., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3984. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751649_30
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