• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.105-114
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• 2005

There are several goals or properties which authentication protocols may have; some of them are key freshness, far-end aliveness, key confirmation, etc. Most of them have extensively been discussed and studied so far in the literature. 'Responsibility' and 'credit', which were first raised by Abadi as additional goals, received quite an exceptional treatment; there were little response from researchers about these new goals. It is surprising to see that these two properties have slipped through any investigation, successfully achieving the positions as the goals for authentication protocols. In this paper, we investigate these two new properties and their relations to authentication protocols, and answers to the question: what brings us credit and responsibility.