Security Internet Management & Security 06 Learning outcomes At the end of this session, you should be able to: –Describe the reasons for having system and network security –Relate security services to security attacks –Compare different symmetric encryption algorithms: DES and AES

Security Internet Management & Security 06 Introduction With the high availability of resources on the Internet, security has become a very relevant issue. The main aim is to protect the resources on the Internet so that they cannot: –Be accessed –Be changed –Be deleted by non-authorised or malicious users

Security Internet Management & Security 06 Vulnerability of systems and networks A B C D Malicious user Malicious user Malicious user Malicious user

Security Types of Security Attacks Attacks can be categorised as : – Passive Security Attacks – Active Security Attacks

Security Passive security attacks A passive attack is an attack where an unauthorized attacker monitors or listens in on the communication between two parties.

Security Internet Management & Security 06 Passive security attacks Passive attacks –Obtain information being transmitted or stored in a system –Do not alter the contents of messages or files –Difficult to detect Solution: –Prevent the attack: data confidentiality –Encrypt information, strongly authenticate access

Security Internet Management & Security 06 Active security attacks Active attacks requires the attacker to be able to transmit data to one or both of the parties, or block the data stream in one or both directions. –Modify or delete data stored or being transmitted Masquerade Replay Modification Denial of service –Easier to detect –Harder to prevent

Security Internet Management & Security 06 Active security attacks –the attacker can stop all or parts of the data sent by the communicating parties. –This attacker can e.g. try to take the place of the client (or server) when the authentication procedure has been performed. –Without integrity checks of the received data, the server will not detect that the origin of the data is not the authenticated person. –A clever programmer can, with not to much effort, implement a system like this on a computer acting as a gateway (bridge) between two subnets.

Security Internet Management & Security 06 Active security attacks The following are examples of different attacks this person could impose. –Inserting his own data into the data stream. –Playback of data from another connection. –Playback of data that had previously been sent in the same and opposite direction on the same connection. –Deletion of data. –Man-in-the-middle attack. The man-in-the-middle-attack is an attack where the intruder sits in the middle of the communication link, intercepting messages and substituting them with his own messages. In this way, he tries to fool the parties to believe they are talking to each other directly, while they really are talking to the attacker him-selves.

Security Internet Management & Security 06 Active security attacks Solution: –Authentication –Access control –Data confidentiality –Data integrity –Non-repudiation –Availability

Security Internet Management & Security 06 Conclusions Security strategies are important because they: –help maintain good performance of resources on a network –guarantee users that their information is safe and private –deter potential attacks on resources

Security Internet Management & Security 06 Cryptography Cryptography modifies the content of a message according to a predetermined pattern only known by sender and receiver with the aim to prevent other parties from reading the content An encrypted message is: 1 Transformed 2 Transmitted 3 Unchanged The predetermined pattern or key needs to be transmitted separately

Security Internet Management & Security 06 Symmetric cryptography Process of cryptography: Message Encryption algorithm Secret key Cipher text Decryption algorithm (the success of the process relies on the secrecy of the key, but it must be known by the sender and the receiver)

Security Cryptography on the Internet Internet Management & Security 06 An iterated block cipher maybe be used to get a few rounds of security

Security Internet Management & Security 06 Triple DES What we all call Triple DES is EDE (encrypt, decrypt, encrypt). The way that it works is that you take three 56-bit keys, and encrypt with K1, decrypt with K2 and encrypt with K3. There are two-key and three-key versions. Think of the two-key version as merely one where K1=K3. Note that if K1=K2=K3, then Triple DES is really Single DES.

Security Internet Management & Security 06 Triple DES The same as DES but it uses three executions of the full DES algorithm with three different keys Used in financial applications C=E K 3 [D K 2 [E K 1 [P]]] C – cipher text P – plaintext E K [X] – encryption of X using key K D K [X] – decryption of X using key K Advantage – effective key of 128 bits Disadvantage – more processing power needed

Security Internet Management & Security 06 Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) AES – first thought of to replace 3DES with a lighter algorithm that provides the same security as 3DES Block length – 128 bits Supports keys of – 128, 192 and 256 bits (most common key is 128) NOT a Feistel structure