Re: iSCSI: PAK: an alternative to SRP and DH-CHAP

[Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com>]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Philip MacKenzie wrote:

> Acceptance:
> - PAK has been published in Eurocrypt (2000), one
> of the 2 top crypto conferences.
> - PAK is basically a refinement of EKE, the well-known
> encrypted key exchange protocol by Bellovin and Merritt.

Is it covered by the same patents? The whole concern over SRP is that
Phoenix and Lucent have patents and very ambiguous discussions about needs
to license. Will PAK have the same problems?

Take care,

Bill