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AUTH(6)								       AUTH(6)

NAME
       auth - authentication using station-to-station protocol

DESCRIPTION
       The  following  protocol,  based on the Station-to-Station protocol, is
       used for mutual authentication of two parties, each possessing  a  cer‐
       tificate from the same certifying authority (CA).

       In the description below:

       alpha  is a Diffie-Hellman base used system wide

       p      is a Diffie-Hellman modulus used system wide

       Rx     is a random number of the same order as p.

       PKx    the public key of x

       SKx    the private key of x

       CERTx  the public key of x signed by the certifying authority

       sign(x)
	      represents x signed with n's private key

       In the following, the parties are labelled 0 and 1.

       Each  sends its public key and certificate to the other together with a
       computation alpha**r0 mod p (alpha**r1 mod p) based on the Diffie-Hell‐
       man parameters contained in the certificate:

	      0 → 1  alpha**r0 mod p, CERTu0, PKu0
	      1 → 0  alpha**r1 mod p, CERTu1, PKu1

       Each  can  now  use the CA's public key and the certificate received to
       check that each has the other's public key.

       Finally, each user signs values known to both that each can  then  ver‐
       ify:

	      0 → 1  sig0(alpha**r0 mod p, alpha**r1 mod p)
	      1 → 0  sig1(alpha**r0 mod p, alpha**r1 mod p)

       At  this	 point 0 and 1 can calculate the shared secret alpha**(r0*r1),
       and can use it to encrypt later communications.

SEE ALSO
       keyring-auth(2), keytext(6), login(6)

								       AUTH(6)
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