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  • Based on your edit, I understand the goal here is to establish a secure connection between user and server with knowledge of a password alone, even if all common security measures like using TLS fail or are unreliable. If this is correct, then you indeed want a PAKE like OPAQUE. This provides a mutually authenticated secure connection over an insecure channel, so both the client and the server know they're talking to the right party, and nobody can do a MiTM attack. Commented Feb 13 at 14:45
  • "Eliminate (il)legitimate MITM interception of web traffic snooping." - How does your approach achieve this? The MITM can just intercept the private key you're sending over the line (and maybe change the page to snoop the password the user enters). Commented Feb 13 at 15:00
  • @marcelm: Right, the password cannot simply be entered on the (potentially manipulated) target page. But a browser extension which implements the PAKE outside of the page could fix this. Commented Feb 13 at 15:08