Class 19 Wrap-up and Review CIS 755: Advanced Computer Security Spring 2014 Eugene Vasserman

Administrative stuff No class during the last week of the semester (May 6 th and 8 th ) – No office hours either – I’m out of town – No presentations Remember exam on Thursday – Study guide is up on the class web page No office hours this Friday – to meet Focus on your projects and reports

The most important slide of the class What are the take-away messages? – Think like an adversary – Kerckhoffs’ principle and Shannon’s maxim – Be able to search for solutions – Read papers – Reuse, reuse, reuse (correctly!) – State assumptions (be sure they hold) – Be able to admit “I don’t know” – not everyone can engineer every solution

I’m sure this is someone’s law… If a security system is too difficult to use, users will find a way to get around it – Corollary: Getting the job done is more important than security Has more immediate potentially bad outcomes

Things to remember What does “secure” mean? Who is the adversary, and why? There is such a thing as too much security If too hard to use, users will bypass security Attacks only get better

Some things to remember Theoretical to practical in ~10 years – Chosen ciphertext attack – HDMI – CBC chosen plaintext attack Attacks only get better – Look at history of MD5 – Look at history of SHA (e.g. SHA-0) Some things are a bad idea in the first place, e.g. “trusted” hardware

NEVER BUILD YOUR OWN WHEN SOLUTION EXISTS!!! NEVER COMPOSE YOUR OWN WHEN LIBRARY EXISTS!!!

Safety vs. security Think like an adversary! Random → malicious faults Engineering for security: “What’s the worst that can happen?” Assume it will… Always, always, ALWAYS state your assumptions!

Security: Fundamental differences Real world: physical, intuitive – Risk assessment People are not even good at this in the real world! – Trusted vs. trustworthy – Forensics, physical evidence Forgery – Fail “evident,” e.g. theft – Scale of failures

More basics Trusted vs. trustworthy – e.g. the recent SSL Certificate Authority fiasco Risk, hazard, vulnerability – Adversary, ROI, scale Assurance levels – “Rainbow” book series, Common Criteria Method of returning to secure states Fail-closed/secure or fail-open/insecure?

Basic cryptographic primitives Confidentiality (encryption) – Symmetric (e.g. AES) – Asymmetric (e.g. RSA) Hash functions (e.g. SHA1) Integrity and authentication – Symmetric (message authentication codes) – Asymmetric (signatures) Key agreement Random numbers

Block cipher modes of operation ECB, CBC, OFB, CTR, CFB, GCM, XEX, XTS Differences, i.e. why do we care? – Some are parallelizable (GCM) Also provides authentication! – Some are self-synchronizing (CFB) Trick question: Block ciphers vs. stream ciphers vs. pseudorandom number generators (PRNG)?

Security (strength) Key size * – Commonly for AES, for RSA – What is a [good] key? Underlying cryptosystem/primitives Composition e.g. MAC with broken underlying hash function may not itself be broken

Modes of operation (ECB) Images borrowed from Wikipedia :)

Modes of operation (CBC) Images borrowed from Wikipedia :)

Recall: MACs “Keyed hash” (MAC from a cryptographically-secure hash function) – Hash  Block cipher (CBC or CFB)  MAC Hybrid modes e.g. CBC-MAC – Secrecy plus authenticity (2-party) Remember to use different keys for MAC and encryption… why?

Modes of operation (CFB) Images borrowed from Wikipedia :)

Modes of operation (CTR) Images borrowed from Wikipedia :) VS. ECB

Giving, storing and wiping secrets Credentials Password security Storage security Input security – Ctrl-Alt-Del Forgetfulness security – Encryption? –

Access control Authentication → access No authentication → no access What are we protecting? Who is our adversary? – Threat model Who is trusted? Where does enforcement occur?

Implementation considerations Kerckhoffs’ principle and Shannon’s maxim – Especially tempting to violate in case of “dirty” code – I’ve been there! Watch your (unstated) assumptions – Example: Unsanitized (untrustworthy) input Adversaries Side-channels Performance

More considerations Correct tool for the job – Requirements (before, not after) – spend time on this Correct usage of the tool Documentation! Weakest links Pay attention to potential non-cryptographic issues such as side/covert channels – But you can never eliminate them: PROVABLE Think / test like an adversary

Current state of symmetric encryption DES is too weak (56-bit key) 3DES is weak (168-bit keys but only security – meet-in-the-middle attack) Recent weaknesses in AES: – AES-256 ( ) AES-192 ( ) AES-128 ( ) us/projects/cryptanalysis/aesbc.pdf

Current state of hash functions MD5 is broken – SHA-1 is known to be weak – (2 69 ) – (2 106, generalizable) – SHA-256 (variant) is even weaker SHA-3 currently in “development” (NIST) – We have a winner: all hail Keccak (SHA-3)! –

Problems: Side channels Side-channel attacks VERY damaging – Power – Timing – Error messages Different errors in SSH leak information (mismatch between implementation and specification of CBC block cipher mode):

Distributed systems: Security Eliminating a single point of failure – Denial of service protection (robustness) Eliminating a single point of trust – What if your boss is malicious? If we want to reap benefits of distributed system designs, we have to take care of the “maybes” How?

Distributed systems: Privacy Local system – local information Distributed system – more access to potentially private information Privacy vs. authentication Sometimes privacy is not a security requirement, sometimes it is Are there other potential security requirements related to privacy?

Source routing with capabilities B, data S3 S2 S1 B S3 S2 S1 A

eCash Broker WitnessClient Merchant

Chaum Mixes Bob Alice Output in lexographic order

Global Adversary Bob Alice

Tor ABC TCP over TCP (UGH!)

Tor hidden services ABCDEF

Global adversary vs. Tor Bob Alice Entire Tor network

Tor network positioning attack ABCM

Tor linkability attack ABC

Tor selective DoS attack ABC

Tor and bridges

Enumerating Freenet Run a Freenet node; wait for nodes to contact you Or just query random “locations”

ISP Anonymity ISP AS1 AS2 Anonymizing Network

ISP Censorship resistance ISP AS1 AS2 Anonymizing Network Membership Concealing Network

secret Covert auth. !! Hi? Hi! XX Hi? ?? !!??

Steganographic embedding Linux 2.6 TCP SYN packet header with embedded MAC

Adeona

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