Needham–Schroeder protocol
Protocolo de Needham-Schroeder
- Date
- 1978 · confidence medium
- Place
- Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Michael Schroeder y Roger Needham
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Pioneering cryptographic protocols for establishing session keys and mutual authentication between two parties over an insecure network, devised by Roger Needham and Michael Schroeder and the basis of the later Kerberos protocol.
What it led to
- The Kerberos network authentication protocol
- Development of protocol cryptography and its formal verification
- Later discovery of vulnerabilities (Lowe's attack, 1995) that spurred formal protocol analysis
- Foundations of modern authentication in distributed networks