Mosref Ecdh Affiliation

LibTomCrypt employs ECC to provide a Diffie-Hellman style key agreement protocol. MOSREF employs this ECDH protocol to establish a secure channel for affiliation between the Console and Drone.

While anonymous key agreement provides an effective way for two endpoints to establish a symmetric key for communication with each other, it does not provide a way to authenticate the endpoints. MOSREF ECDH Affiliation employs a shared secret vector to construct a two way challenge and response that performs authentication over the secured channel, making a reasonable guarantee of the Console and Drone identities.

Improvements:

Glossary:

At Deployment, the Console Knows:

At Deployment, the Drone Knows:

At Invocation, the Console Determines:

At Invocation, the Drone Determines:

At Affiliation:

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Ciphers and Key Strengths: