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Delayed Password Disclosure

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 22, 2005 @09:53AM from the you-show-me-yours dept.

ET_Fleshy writes "Markus Jakobsson has an interesting article discussing a promising new security protocol called "Delayed Password Disclosure" that can validate a computers authenticity before exchanging passwords/keys. While nothing is ever truly secure, this seems to show promise in protecting users from a wide variety of stealth attacks (pdf) used today, specifically man in the middle (pdf) attacks."

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Huge text by hab136 · 2005-02-22 10:14 · Score: 0, Redundant

Holy crap that is some seriously large text!
redundant and over-simplified by smakx · 2005-02-22 10:23 · Score: 0, Redundant

This article looks like the paper you would find on your desk the first day of 'security 101' class. As others have stated, nothing new is offered here, the conceptual model presented is not detailed yet flawed none the less, and the font size is the icing on the cake of annoyance.