Information technology - Security techniques - Entity authentication - Part 5: Mechanisms using zero-knowledge techniques

CSA Group
Standards Development Organisation:
Canadian Standards Association (operating as CSA Group)
Working Program:
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Designation Number:
CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC 9798-5-10
Standard Type:
National Standard of Canada - Adoption of International Standard
Standard Development Activity:
Reaffirmation
ICS code(s):
35.040
Status:
Proceeding to development
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Scope:

This part of ISO/IEC 9798 specifies entity authentication mechanisms using zero-knowledge techniques:

  • mechanisms based on identities and providing unilateral authentication
  • mechanisms based on integer factorization and providing unilateral authentication
  • mechanisms based on discrete logarithms with respect to numbers that are either prime or composite, and providing unilateral authentication
  • mechanisms based on asymmetric encryption systems and providing either unilateral authentication, or mutual authentication
  • mechanisms based on discrete logarithms on elliptic curves and providing unilateral authentication.

These mechanisms are constructed using the principles of zero-knowledge techniques, but they are not necessarily zero-knowledge according to the strict definition for every choice of parameters.

Project need:

To review the standard for its 5-year review period

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