The YAK is a public-key authenticated key-agreement protocol, proposed by Feng Hao in 2010. [1][2] It is claimed to be the simplest authenticated key exchange protocol among the related schemes, including MQV, HMQV, Station-to-Station protocol, SSL/TLS etc. The authentication is based on public key pairs. As with other protocols, YAK normally requires a Public Key Infrastructure to distribute authentic public keys to the communicating parties. The security of YAK is disputed (see below and the talk page).
- ^ Hao, Feng (2010). "On Robust Key Agreement Based on Public Key Authentication" (PDF). Financial Cryptography and Data Security, LNCS 6052. 14th Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security. Tenerife, Spain. pp. 383–390.
- ^ Hao, Feng (18 April 2012). "On robust key agreement based on public key authentication" (PDF). Security and Communication Networks. 7 (1): 77–87. doi:10.1002/sec.550. ISSN 1939-0122.