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Short Authentication Strings for TLS
draft-miers-tls-sas-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Ian Miers, Matthew Green , Eric Rescorla
Last updated 2014-08-18 (Latest revision 2014-02-14)
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Abstract

TLS and DTLS connections generally rely on a PKI, a shared secret, or endpoint fingerprints for endpoint authentication. This document describes an authentication mechanism which instead generates a "short authentication string" (SAS) as an emergent property of the connection. The SAS can then be verified via an external channel in order to authenticate the connection.

Authors

Ian Miers
Matthew Green
Eric Rescorla

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