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| author | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2002-10-13 15:38:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2002-10-13 15:38:48 +0000 |
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spelling corrections, and addition of a subsection for compression algorithms.
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diff --git a/doc/tex/auth.tex b/doc/tex/auth.tex index eaea4b34c3..ecb90d283f 100644 --- a/doc/tex/auth.tex +++ b/doc/tex/auth.tex @@ -76,12 +76,12 @@ This protocol also offers protection against off-line attacks, such as password file stealing. This is achieved since SRP does not use the plain password to perform authentication, but something called a verifier. The verifier is $g^{x}mod(n)$ and $x$ is a value calculated -from the username and the password. -\par SRP is normaly used with a SHA based hash function, to calculate +from the user name and the password. +\par SRP is normally used with a SHA based hash function, to calculate the value of $x$. \par The advantage of SRP authentication, over other proposed secure password authentication schemas, is that SRP does not require the server to hold -the user's password. This kind of protection is similar to the one used traditionaly +the user's password. This kind of protection is similar to the one used traditionally in the \emph{UNIX} ``passwd'' file, where the contents of this file did not cause harm to the system security if they were revealed. \par @@ -104,3 +104,4 @@ SRP & Authentication using the SRP protocol. \gnutls{} includes a program to manipulate the required for SRP authentication. See section \ref{srpcrypt} on page \pageref{srpcrypt} for more information. + |