Owl: An Augmented Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Scheme

ePrint Report: Owl: An Augmented Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Scheme

Feng Hao, Samiran Bag, Liqun Chen, Paul C. van Oorschot

We present Owl, an augmented password-authenticated key exchange (PAKE) protocol that is both efficient and supported by security proofs. Owl is motivated by recognized limitations in SRP-6a and OPAQUE. SRP-6a is the only augmented PAKE that has enjoyed wide use in practice to date, but it lacks the support of formal security proofs, and does not support elliptic curve settings. OPAQUE …

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