@techreport{perlman-strong-cred-00, number = {draft-perlman-strong-cred-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-perlman-strong-cred-00}, author = {Radia Perlman and Charlie W. Kaufman and Eric Rescorla}, title = {{Strong Password-Based Credentials Download Using Pseudorandom Moduli}}, pagetotal = 0, year = 2000, month = nov, day = 21, abstract = {In a strong password-based protocol, the only thing the client needs to know is the user's password, and an eavesdropper, or someone impersonating either end, cannot do off-line password-guessing attacks. This sort of protocol can be used for credentials download, or for mutual authentication. Although password-based mutual authentication protocols can be used for credentials download, they are designed with some properties (such as not storing a password- equivalent at the server) that are not important in a credentials- download protocol. Therefore, a protocol designed specifically for credentials download can be fewer messages, higher performance at the server, and allow the server to operate in a stateless manner. Therefore it is possible, even likely, that different protocols might be preferable in one case (credentials download) than another.}, }