Public Keys

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Man-in-the-middle Attack - Defenses Against The Attack
... attacks use authentication techniques that are based on Public key infrastructures PKI mutual authentication The main defence in a PKI scenario is mutual authentication ... rogue applications from genuine applications Stronger mutual authentication, such as Secret keys (which are usually high information entropy secrets, and thus ... are being exported to sandbox area before removal for analysis The integrity of public keys must generally be assured in some manner, but need not be secret ...
Public-key Cryptography - Practical Considerations - Weaknesses
... Among symmetric key encryption algorithms, only the one-time pad can be proven to be secure against any adversary - no matter how much computing power is available ... However, there is no public-key scheme with this property, since all public-key schemes are susceptible to a "brute-force key search attack" ... In many cases, the work factor can be increased by simply choosing a longer key ...
Needham–Schroeder Protocol - The Public-key Protocol
... This assumes the use of a public-key encryption algorithm ... use a trusted server (S) to distribute public keys on request ... These keys are KPA and KSA, respectively public and private halves of an encryption key-pair belonging to A KPB and KSB, similar belonging to B KPS and KSS, similar belonging to S ...
Key Server (cryptographic) - Problems With Keyservers
... Once a public key has been uploaded, it is difficult to remove ... Some users stop using their public keys for various reasons, such as when they forget their pass phrase, or if their private key is compromised or lost ... In those cases, it was hard to delete a public key from the server, and even if it were deleted, someone else can upload a fresh copy of the same public key to the server ...

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