The concept of security culture is relatively new. It is often investigated in a simplistic manner
focusing on end-users and on the technical aspects of security. Security, however, is a …

This work presents a quantum key agreement (QKA) based on the BB84 protocol. The newly
proposed QKA protocol enables two involved parties to jointly establish a shared secret key …

Password is the most commonly used technique for user authentication due to its simplicity
and convenience. The main advantage of passwords is that users can memorize them easily …

Three-party authenticated key exchange protocol is an important cryptographic technique in
the secure communication areas, by which two clients, each shares a human-memorable …

Three-party password authenticated key exchange (3PAKE) protocols allow two users
(clients) to establish a session key through an authentication server over an insecure …

In the last few years, researchers have extensively studied the password-authenticated key
exchange (PAKE) in the three-party setting. The fundamental security goal of PAKE is …

In the literature, many three-party authenticated key exchange (3PAKE) protocols are put
forwarded to established a secure session key between two users with the help of trusted …

Recently, Lu and Cao published a novel protocol for password-based authenticated key
exchanges (PAKE) in a three-party setting in Journal of Computers and Security, where two …

Abstract Three-party Password Authenticated Key Exchange (3PAKE) is a protocol where
two parties generate the same session key with the help of a trusted server. With the …

With the development of the intelligent transportation system (ITS) and increasing
application of vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs), the security of VANETs has become a …