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Initial exchanges of public keys are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. Describe as many defences against it...

Initial exchanges of public keys are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. Describe as many defences against it as you can.

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Below figure depicts the attack

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One must do something additional to stop MITM attack.
One way to do this is if there is a trusted third party that can verify (for Bob) that the key he received is Alice's public key. (This is what TLS does.)
Another is if everyone's public keys are stored in a secure cite that anyone can access but where you cannot change anyone else's public key. Then Bob can simply check that kpubM really came from Alice.
If there is such a site, Alice could, in fact, generate the key herself and then send it doubly encrypted to Bob via:
    F(kpubB,F(kprivA,k))
Then only Bob could decrypt the outer encryption with his public key and and, then, he decrypts the result with Alice's public key. This should guarantee that no-one else can decrypt the outer encryption and only Alice could have encrypted the result of that decryption.

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Sonali Yadav Thu, Dec 30, 2021 3:41 AM

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