Abstract
The 3PAKE (Three-Party Authenticated Key Exchange) protocol is a valuable cryptographic method that offers safe communication and permits two diverse parties to consent to a new safe meeting code using the trusted server. There have been explored numerous 3PAKE protocols earlier to create a protected meeting code between users employing the trusted server. However, existing modified 3PAKE protocols have numerous drawbacks and are incapable to provide desired secrecy against diverse attacks such as man-in-the-middle, brute-force attacks, and many others in social networks. In this article, the authors proposed an improved as well as safe 3PAKE protocol based on the hash function and the symmetric encryption for the social networks. The authors utilized a well-acknowledged AVISPA tool to provide security verification of the proposed 3PAKE technique, and findings show that our proposed protocol is safer in opposition to active as well as passive attacks namely the brute-force, man-in-the-middle, parallel attack, and many more. Furthermore, compared to other similar schemes, the proposed protocol is built with a reduced computing cost as our proposed protocol consumes less time in execution and offers high secrecy in the social networks with improved accuracy. As a result, this verified scheme is more efficient as well as feasible for implementation in the social networks in comparison to previous security protocols. Although multifarious authors carried out extensive research on 3PAKE protocols to offer safe communication, still there are vital opportunities to explore and implement novel improved protocols for higher safety in the social networks and mobile commerce environment in the future in opposition to diverse active as well as passive attacks.
Highlights
There have already been identified multifarious benefits of the 3PAKE protocols earlier by numerous researchers in past from security perspectives, one of the key benefits of this protocol recognized by some researchers is that it offers an easy method for a huge number of client-to-client communication settings, in addition, every client does not demand to recall numerous keys for diverse clients who converse with each other [13–15]
The authors utilized Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange (DHKE) scheme to design the suggested 3PAKE protocol based on the hash function and symmetric encryption
By utilizing the AVISPA toolset to do privacy assessment as well as validation, authors prove that their suggested 3PAKE algorithm is trustworthy and can operate appropriately for the social networks for higher secrecy and privacy as needed
Summary
The 3PAKE (Three-Party Password-Based Authenticated Key Exchange) protocol permits two diverse clients over unsecured channels to have a talk for safe session codes and set up a safe channel through an authenticated server to secure their consequential communication [6–9]. There have already been identified multifarious benefits of the 3PAKE protocols earlier by numerous researchers in past from security perspectives, one of the key benefits of this protocol recognized by some researchers is that it offers an easy method for a huge number of client-to-client communication settings, in addition, every client does not demand to recall numerous keys for diverse clients who converse with each other [13–15]. There are multifarious benefits of the 3PAKE protocols usages in numerous applications, in addition to this, 3PAKE protocols provide mutual authentication as well as a safe information exchange e.g., authenticated trusted server helps in communications among buyers as well as sellers in e-commerce, etc
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