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Pico Without Public Keys (Transcript of Discussion)

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Security Protocols XXIII (Security Protocols 2015)

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I will start with a motivating story. This is a true story, one of the latest in a long series of similar stories. Once upon a time, in a certain land, in the year of Our Lord 2013, Adobe lost 153 million passwords. Adobe was broken into and every one of their 153 million customers had to change their password.

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Notes

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    Actually it might not, because it doesn’t contain a digit; but that just shows the inflexible stupidity of such policies.

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    LNCS 7114, pp 49–97.

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    LNCS 8809 172–196.

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    More or less because this depends on websites offering PMF compliance.

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    Sandboxing technologies such as TrustZone may help secure the phone.

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    If we do mutual authentication the roles will reverse at some point.

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    In terms of communication costs and dependencies on external infrastructure.

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    Worse: at every request of a TLS-protected page.

  10. 10.

    Discovering whether the speaker meant the coat or the piercing is left as an exercise for the reader.

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  1. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Frank Stajano

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  1. University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom

    Bruce Christianson

  2. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Å venda

  3. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Vashek Matyáš

  4. University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom

    James Malcolm

  5. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Frank Stajano

  6. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

    Jonathan Anderson

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Stajano, F. (2015). Pico Without Public Keys (Transcript of Discussion). In: Christianson, B., Švenda, P., Matyáš, V., Malcolm, J., Stajano, F., Anderson, J. (eds) Security Protocols XXIII. Security Protocols 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9379. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26096-9_22

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