Why Do We Still Pass Passwords Over a Network — Meet PAKE?
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3 min readOct 20, 2018
Why do we still pass passwords over a network?
Increasingly we use ZKP (Zero-Knowledge Proofs) to prove that the Bob still has knowledge of his password. Another method is PAKE (password-authenticated key exchange) and which supports the hiding of a shared password within network communications. With this we can have a relatively weak shared password on either…