# Insecurity in Needham and Schroeder protocol?

I've been studying specifically the authentication algorithm Needham and Shroeder, and understand the idea in general of the message exchange. But, researching on the subject, I found a question that I do not know the correct answer to, and I would like to get some feedback from someone with more experience on the subject.

At one point in the algorithm agent A asks B to send an N encrypted with the session key in the form of challenge.

Example :

A - > B [ Nb ] Kab

Kab : session key,
Nb : a number sent by B,


Says the question that this step is not safe , and asks to explain why. The only problem I see is the message of this session key, Kab, be violated . Anyone can access the session key, or there is some flaw in this step?

Because only if A and B have the key, Kab, this message can only be decrypted by these two agents.

Another problem may be the message playback, somebody third agent captures the [ Nb ] Kab and sends later getting the opinion that knows Kab, this can also be a problem? The latter case can be solved with a timestamp .

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