State of Key Agreement Protocols
Shangping Wang · 2008
Key agreement protocols allow two or more users to establish a common secret key though open networks.This notion of key agreements is one of the most fundamental cryptographic primitives and the base of public cryptography.This paper presents a survey on the state of key agreements including the security model of key agreements,the key agreement protocols in the context of conventional discrete logarithms,pairing-based key agreement protocols and password-based key agreement protocols.We also remark some open problems and the promising research lines in this area.