Methods for remotely changing a communications password

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H04L 9/32 (2006.01) G06F 12/14 (2006.01) G06F 21/00 (2006.01) H04L 29/06 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2424833

Disclosed are methods for an authentication client, having been authenticated by an authentication server, to leverage the effects of that authentication to implement a new communications password. The authentication client gets a new password from its user. From the new password and from information provided by the authentication server, the authentication client derives a "password verifier." The password verifier is then shared with the authentication server. The new password itself is never sent to the authentication server, and it is essentially impossible to derive the new password from the password verifier. The authentication client and the authentication server, in parallel, derive a new set of authentication and encryption security keys from the new password and from the password verifier, respectively. This process may be repeated to limit the amount of data sent using any one particular set of security keys and thus to limit the effectiveness of any statistical attacker.

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