SRP News and Announcements

12/11/98

Version 1.4.4 of the SRP distribution is released, along with a port of the SRP FTP client to win32.

4/8/98

Kermit95, v 1.1.16, is released with SRP support. Kermit95 supports Telnet authentication and strong session encryption under Windows 95/NT.

3/31/98

Version 1.4.1 of the SRP distribution is released.

3/12/98

The Secure Remote Password Protocol is officially presented at the 1998 Internet Society Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '98).

3/2/98

Tera Term Pro, a native Windows 95/NT Telnet client, is released with SRP support.

2/16/98

Version 1.4 of the SRP distribution is released.

2/10/98

The SRP-DEV mailing list is created.

8/28/97

The Stanford Computer Science Department supports SRP on xenon.stanford.edu, its main login server.

8/27/97

Final version of SRP (known as SRP-3 at the time) is posted to sci.crypt.

8/21/97

SRP is submitted to the IEEE P1363 Working Group as a contribution to the Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS).

7/27/97

Details of SRP-2 posted to sci.crypt. SRP-2 was based on a composite modulus. This was eventually discovered to be an unsatisfying solution.

7/21/97

SRP-1 is discovered to be plaintext-equivalent.

7/16/97

Details of SRP-1 first posted to the newsgroup sci.crypt