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PQuAKE - Post-Quantum Authenticated Key Exchange
draft-uri-lake-pquake-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Uri Blumenthal , Brandon Luo , Sean O'Melia , Gabriel Torres , David A. Wilson
Last updated 2025-11-02 (Latest revision 2025-04-22)
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Abstract

This document defines the Post-Quantum Authenticated Key Exchange (PQuAKE) protocol that addresses the needs of bandwidth- and/or power-constrained environments, while maintaining strong security guarantees. It accomplishes that by minimizing the number of bits that need to be exchanged and by utilizing an implicit peer authentication approach similar to Menezes-Qu-Vanstone (MQV) design. This protocol is suitable for integration into protocols that establish dynamic secure sessions, such as Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2), or Secure COmmunications Interoperability Protocol (SCIP). This protocol has proofs in the verifiers Verifpal and CryptoVerif for security properties such as secrecy of the session key, mutual authentication, identity hiding with a preshared secret, and forward secrecy of the session key. The authors are in the process of publishing the proofs.

Authors

Uri Blumenthal
Brandon Luo
Sean O'Melia
Gabriel Torres
David A. Wilson

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