| 摘要 |
<p>Techniques are disclosed for discovering security associations formed in communication environments. For example, a method for forming a discoverable security association between a first computing device (e.g., a first client) and a second computing device (e.g., a second client) comprises the following steps. The first computing device is provided with a seed that is used by the first computing device to generate a secret that is used by the first computing device to compute a key for use in securing communications with the second computing device. The secret is re-computable based on knowledge of the seed and the key is re-computable based on knowledge of the secret such that a third computing device (e.g., an intercepting server) can use the re-computed key to intercept communications between the first computing device and the second computing device unbeknownst to the first computing device and the second computing device. By way of example, the key may be a result of an identity based authenticated key exchange.</p> |
