On Thu, 2016-07-07 at 07:36 -0500, lvh wrote:
> > On Jul 7, 2016, at 7:22 AM, Simo Sorce <s...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 17:20 -0500, Laurens Van Houtven wrote:
> >> 
> >> Right. The reason I'm being so persistent is similar to why a lot of
> >> cryptographers dislike PAKE -- it's not that it's bad or hard to do --
> >> it just seems like a weird problem to have. To quote Glyph, it sounded
> >> a bit like a jackhammer problem :)
> > 
> > Sorry for the OT, I find PAKE very useful and we have a draft[1] to get
> > a variant (SPAKE) in the Kerberos protocol.
> > Do you have any reference to documents describing this "dislike" ?
> > I'd like to know more about it.
> 
> 
> Nope. I don’t share those opinions of PAKE, regardless; but I do agree
> that it’s a solution to a very specific problem. If you want a
> reasonable way to go from a low-entropy shared secret to a
> high-entropy one, then you probably want SPAKE2.

Yes, we are using SPAKE2, thanks.
Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York

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