Crypto theory to practice

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I.SHIFT REGISTERS
The first practical approach to ONE-TIME PAD cryptosystem.
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Basic idea: to use a short key, called
“seed'' with a pseudorandom generator
to generate as long key as needed.
Shift registers as pseudorandom generators
linear shift register
Theorem For every n > 0 there is a linear shift register of maximal period 2n
-1.

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CRYPTOANALYSIS of linear feedback shift registers
Sequences generated by linear shift registers have excellent statistical properties,
but they are not resistant to a known plaintext attack.
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Example Let us have a 4-bit shift register and let us assume we know 8 bits of
plaintext and of cryptotext. By XOR-ing these two bit sequences we get 8 bits of the
output of the register (of the key), say 00011110
We need to determine c4, c3, c2, c1 such that the above sequence is outputed by the
shift register
state of cell 4 state of cell 3 state of cell 2 state of cell 1
c4 1 0 0
c4 ⊕ c3 c4 1 0
c2 ⊕ c4 c4 ⊕ c3 c4 1
c1 ⊕ c3 ( c4 ⊕ c3 )⊕ c4 c2 ⊕ c4 c4 ⊕ c3 c4
c4 = 1 c4 = 1
c4 ⊕ c3 =1 c3 = 0
c2 ⊕ c4 = 1 c2 = 0
c1 ⊕ c3 ⊕ c4 ⊕ c3 • c4 = 0 c1 = 1

Linear RecurrencesLinear RecurrencesIV054
Linear feedback shift registers are an efficient way to realize recurrence relations
of the type
xn+m = c0 xn+ c1 xn+1+ … + cm-1 xn+m-1 (mod n)
that can be specified by 2m bits c0 , … , cm-1 and x1 , … , xm.
Recurrences realized by shift registers on previous slides are:
xn+4 = xn; xn+4 = xn+2+ xn; xn+4 = xn+3 + xn.
The main advantage of such recurrences is that a key of a very large period
can be generated using a very few bits.
For example, the recurrence xn+31 = xn + xn+3 , and any non-zero initial vector,
produces sequences with period 231
– 1, what is more than two billions.
Encryption using one-time pad and key generating by a linear feedback shift
register succumbs easily to a known plaintext attack. If we know few bits of the
plaintext and of the corresponding cryptotext, one can easily determine the
initial part of the key and then the corresponding linear recurrence, as already
shown.

Finding Linear Recurrences – a methodFinding Linear Recurrences – a methodIV054
To test whether a given portion of a key was generated by a recurrence of a
length m, if we know x1 , … , x2m , we need to solve the matrix equation
and then to verify whether the remaining available bits, x2m+1 , … ,are really
generated by the recurrence obtained.
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The basic idea to find linear recurrences generating a given sequence is to check
whether there is such a recurrence for m = 2, 3, … In doing that we use the
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then det(M) = 0.
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Illustration: Let letters of English be encoded by integers from {0,…,25}. Let the key
k = k1,…,ks be a sequence of such integers.
Let
p1,…,pn
be a plaintext.
Define for 0 Ł i < s, p–i = ks-i and construct the cryptotext by
Confusion makes the relation between the cryptotext and plaintext as complex as
possible.
Example: polyalphabetic substitutions.
II. How to make cryptoanalysts' task harder?II. How to make cryptoanalysts' task harder?
Two general methods are called diffusion and confusion.
Diffusion: dissipate the source language redundancy found in the plaintext by
spreading it out over the cryptotext.
Example 1: A permutation of the plaintext rules out possibility to use frequency
tables for digrams, trigrams.
Example 2: Make each letter of cryptotext to depend on so many letters of the
plaintext as possible
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Two fundamental cryptographic techniques, introduced already by
Shannon, are confusion and diffusion.
Confusion obscures the relationship between the plaintext and the
ciphertext, which makes much more difficult cryptanalyst’s attempts
to study cryptotext by looking for redundancies and statistical
patterns. (The best way to cause confusion is through complicated
substitutions.)
Diffusion dissipates redundancy of the plaintext by spreading it over
cryptotext - that again makes much more difficult a cryptanalyst’s
attempts to search for redundancy in the plaintext through
observation of cryptotext. (The best way to achieve it is through
transformations that cause that bits from different positions in
plaintext contribute to the same bit of cryptotext.)
Mono-alphabetic cryptosystems use no confusion and no diffusion.
Polyalphabetic cryptosystems use only confusion. In permutation
cryptosystems only diffusion step is used. DES essentially uses a
sequence of confusion and diffusion steps.

III. CryptosystemIII. Cryptosystem DESDES - its history- its history
15. 5. 1973 National Burea of Standards published a solicitation for a new
cryptosystem.
This led to the development of so far the most often used cryptosystem
Data Encryption Standard - DESData Encryption Standard - DES
DES was developed at IBM, as a modification of an earlier cryptosystem called
Lucifer.
17. 3. 1975 DES was published for first time.
After a heated public discussion, DES was adopted as a standard on
15. 1. 1977.
DES used to be reviewed by NBS every 5 years.
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DESDES - description- description
DES was a revolutionary step in the secret-key cryptography history:
Both encryption and decryption algorithms were made public!!!!!!
Preprocessing: A secret 56-bit key k56 is chosen.
A fixed+public permutation φ56 is applied to get φ56 (k56). The first (second) part of the resulting
string is taken to get a 28-bit block C0 (D0). Using a fixed+public sequence s1,…,s16 of integers,
16 pairs of 28-bit blocks (Ci, Di), i = 1,…,16 are obtained as follows:
Ci (Di) is obtained from Ci -1 (Di -1) by si left shifts.
Using a fixed and public order, a 48-bit block Ki is created from each pair Ci and Di.
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Encryption A fixed+public permutation φ64 is applied to a 64-bits long plaintext w to
get w ‘ = L0R0, where each of the strings L0 and R0 has 32 bits. 16 pairs of 32-bit
blocks Li, Ri , 1 Ł i Ł 16, are designed using the recurrence:
Li = Ri –1
Ri = Li –1 ⊕ f (Ri –1, Ki ),
where f is a fixed+public and easy-to-implement function.
The cryptotext c = Φ-1
64(L16,R16)

DES cryptosystem -DES cryptosystem - Data Encryption Standard - 1977Data Encryption Standard - 1977IV054
Decryption φ64(c) = L16R16 is computed and then the recurrence
Ri –1 = Li
Li –1 = Ri⊕f (Li,,Ki ),
is used to get Li,Ri i = 15,…,1,0, w = Φ-1
64(L0,R0).

How fast is DES?How fast is DES?
200 megabits can be encrypted per second using a special hardware.
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How safe is DES?How safe is DES?
Pretty good.
How to increase security when using DES?How to increase security when using DES?
1. Use two keys, for a double encryption.
2. Use three keys, k1, k2 and k3 to compute
c = DESk1 (DESk2
-1
(DESk3 (w)))
How to increase security when encrypting long plaintexts?
w = m1 m2 … mn
where each mi has 64-bits.
Choose a 56-bit key k and a 64-bit block c0 and compute
ci = DES (mi ⊕ ci -1)
for i = 1,…,m.

The DES contrThe DES controoversyversy
1. There have been suspicions that the design of DES might contain hidden
“trapdoors'‘ what allows NSA to decrypt messages.
2. The main criticism has been that the size of the keyspace, 2 56
, is too small
for DES to be really secure.
3. In 1977 Diffie+Hellamn sugested that for 20 milions$ one could build a VLSI
chip that could search the entire key space within 1 day.
4. In 1993 M. Wiener suggested a machine of the cost 100.000$ that could
find the key in 1.5 days.
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What are the key elements of DES?What are the key elements of DES?IV054
• A cryptosystem is called linear if each bit of cryptotext is a linear
combination of bits of plaintext.
• For linear cryptosystems there is a powerful decryption method -
so-called linear cryptanalysis.
• The only components of DES that are non-linear are S-boxes.
• Some of original requirements for S-boxes:
– Each row of an S-box should include all possible output bit
combinations;
– It two inputs to an S-box differ in precisely one bit, then the
output must differ in a minimum of two bits;
– If two inputs to an S-box differ in their first two bits, but have
identical last two bits, the two outputs have to be distinct.
• There have been many other very technical requirements.

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• Existence of weak keys: they are such keys k that for any plaintext
p,
Ek(Ek(p)) = p.
There are four such keys:
k ∈ {(028
, 028
), (128
, 128
), (028
, 128
), (128
, 028
)}
• The existence of semi-weak key pairs (k1, k2) such that for any
plaintext
Ek1
(Ek2
(p)) = p.
• The existence of complementation property
Ec(k)(c(p)) = c(Ek(p)),
where c(x) is binary complement of binary string x.

DES modes of operationDES modes of operation
ECB mode: to encode a sequence
x1, x2, x3, …
of 64-bit plaintext blocks, each xi is encrypted with the same key.
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CBC mode: to encode a sequence
x1, x2, x3, …
of 64-bit plaintext blocks, a y0 is chosen and each xi is encrypted by cryptotext
yi = ek (yi -1 ⊕ xi).
OFB mode: to encode a sequence
x1, x2, x3, …
of 64-bit plaintext blocks, a z0 is choosen, zi = ek (zi -1) are computed and each xi is
encrypted by cryptotext yi = xi ⊕ zi.
CFB mode: to encode a sequence
x1, x2, x3, …
of 64-bit plaintext blocks a y0 is chosen and each xi is encrypted by cryptotext
yi = xi ⊕ z, where zi = ek (yi -1).

8-bit VERSION of the CFB MODE8-bit VERSION of the CFB MODE
In this mode each 8-bit piece of the plaintext is encrypted without having to wait for an
entire block to be available.
The plaintext is broken into 8-bit pieces: P=[P1,P2,…].
Encryption: An initial 64-bit block X1 is chosen and then, for j=1,2,… , the following
computation is done:
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L8(X) denotes the 8 leftmost bits of X. R56(X) denotes the rightmost 56 bits of X. X||Y
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• CBC mode is used for block-encryption and also for
authentication;
• CFB mode is used for streams-encryption;
• OFB mode is used for stream-encryptions that require message
authentication;
CTR MODE
Counter Mode - some consider it as the best one.
Key design: ki = Ek(n, i) for a nonce n;
Encryption: yi = xi ⊕ ki
This mode is very fast because a key stream can be parallelised to
any degree. Because of that this mode is used in network security
applications.

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• In 1993 M. J. Weiner suggested that one could design, using one
million dollars, a computer capable to decrypt, using brute force,
DES in 3.5 hours.
• In 1998 group of P. Kocher designed, using a quarter million of
dolars, a computer to decrypt DES in 56 hours.
• In 1999 they did that in 24 hours.
• It started to be clear that a new cryptosystem with larger keys is
badly needed.

Product- and Feistel-cryptosystems
Design of several important practical cryptosystems used the following three
general design principles for cryptosystems.
A product cryptosystem combines two or more crypto-transformations in such
a way that resulting cryptosystem is more secure than component transformations.
An iterated block cryptosystem iteratively uses a round function (and it has as
parameters number of rounds r, block bit-size n, subkeys bit-size k) of the input
key K from which r subkeys Ki are derived.
A Feistel cryptosystem is an iterated cryptosystem mapping 2t-bit plaintext (L0,R0).
of t-bit blocks L0 and R0 to a 2t-bit cryptotext (Rr,Lr), through an r-round process,
where r >0.
For 0<I<r+1, the round i maps (Li-1,Ri-1) to (Li,Ri) using a subkey Ki as follows
Li=Ri-1, Ri=Ki-1+f(Ri-1,Ki),
where each subkey Ki is derived from the main key K.

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• Blowfish is Feistel type cryptosystem developed in 1994 by Bruce
Schneider.
• Blowfish is more secure and faster than DES.
• It encrypts 8-bytes blocks into 8-bytes blocks.
• Key length is variable 32k, for k = 1, 2, . . . , 16.
• For decryption it does not reverse the order of encryption, but it
follows it.
• S-boxes are key dependent and they, as well as subkeys are
created by repeated execution of Blowfish enciphering
transformation.
• Blowfish has very strong avalanche effect.
• A follower of Blowfish, Twofish, was one of 5 candidates for AES.
• Blowfish can be downloaded free from the B. Schneider web site.

AES CRYPTOSYSTEMAES CRYPTOSYSTEM
On October 2, 2000, NIST selected, as new Advanced Encryption Standard, the
cryptosystem Rijndael, designed in1998 by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen.
The main goal has been to develop a new cryptographic standard that could be
used to encrypt sensitive governmental information securely, well into the next
century.
AES was expected to be used obligatory by U.S. governmental institution and,
naturally, voluntarily, but as a necessity, also by the private sector.
AES is to encrypt 128-bit blocks using a key with 128, 192 or 256 bits. In addition,
AES is to be used as a standard for authentication (MAC), hashing and
pseudorandom numbers generation.
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Motivations and advantages of AES:Motivations and advantages of AES:
• Short code and fast implementations
• Simplicity and transparency of the design
• Variable key length
• Resistance against all known attacks

ARITHMETICS in GF(2ARITHMETICS in GF(288
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The basic data structure of AES is a byte
a = (a 7, a 6, a 5, a 4, a 3, a 2, a 1, a0)
where ai's are bits, which can be conveniently represented by the polynomial
a(x) = a 7 x 7
+ a 6x 6
+ a 5x 5
+ a 4 x 4
+ a 3 x 3
+ a 2 x 2
+ a 1 x + a 0.
Bytes can be conveniently seen as elements of the field
F = GF (2 8
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+ x 4
+ x 3
+ x + 1.
In the field F, the addition is the bitwise-XOR and multiplication can be elegantly
expressed using polynomial multiplication modulo m(x).
c = a ⊕ b; c = a • b where c(x) = [a(x) • b(x)] mod m(x)
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MULTIPLICATION in GF(2MULTIPLICATION in GF(288
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Multiplication
c = a • b where c(x) = [a(x) • b(x)] mod m(x)
in GF(28
) can be easily performed using a new operation
b = xtime(a)
that corresponds to the polynomial multiplication
b(x) = [a(x) • x] mod m(x),
as follows
set c = 00000000 and p = a;
for i = 0 to 7 do
c ← c ⊕ (bi • p)
p ← xtime(p)
Hardware implementation of the multiplication requires therefore one circuit for
operation xtime and two 8-bit registers.
Operation b = xtime(a) can be implemented by one step (shift) of the following shift
register:
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EXAMPLESEXAMPLES
• `53‘ + `87' = `D4‘
because, in binary,
`01010011‘ ⊕ `10000111‘ = `11010100‘
what means
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+ x + 1) + (x7
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• `57'‘• `83‘ = `C1'
Indeed,
(x6
+ x4
+ x2
+ x + 1)(x7
+ x + 1) = x13
+ x11
+ x9
+ x8
+ x6
+ x5
+ x4
+ x3
+ 1
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(x13
+ x11
+ x9
+ x8
+ x6
+ x5
+ x4
+ x3
+ 1) mod (x8
+ x4
+ x3
+ x + 1) = x7
+ x6
+ 1
• `57‘ • `13‘ = (`57‘ • `01') ⊕ (`57‘ • `02') ⊕ (`57‘ • `10') = `57‘ ⊕ `AE‘ ⊕ `07‘ = `FE‘
because
`57‘ • `02‘ = xtime(57) = `AE‘
`57‘ • `04‘ = xtime(AE) = `47‘
`57‘ • `08‘ = xtime(47) = `8E‘
`57‘ • `10‘ = xtime(8E) = `07'

POLYNOMIALS over GF(2POLYNOMIALS over GF(288
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Algorithms of AES work with 4-byte vectors that can be represented by polynomials
of the degree at most 4 with coefficients in GF(28
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Addition of such polynomials is done using component-wise and bit-wise XOR.
Multiplication is done modulo M(x) = x4
+ 1. (It holds xJ
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+ b1x + b0)
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where additions and multiplications (•) are done in GF(28
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Multiplication of a polynomial a(x) by x results in a cyclic shift of the coefficients.
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This operation is computationally heavy and it is assumed that it will be
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ENCRYPTION in AESENCRYPTION in AES
Encryption and decryption are done using state matrices
elements of which are bytes.
A byte-matrix with 4 rows and k = 4, 6 or 8 columns is also used to write down a
key with Dk = 128, 192 or 256 bits.
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ENCRYPTION ALGORITHMENCRYPTION ALGORITHM
1. KeyExpansion
2. AddRoundKey
3. do (k + 5)-times:
a) SubByte
b) ShiftRow
c) MixColumn
d) AddRoundKey
The final round does not contain MixColumn procedure. The reason being is to be
able to use the same hardware for encryption and decryption.
4. Final round
a) SubByte
b) ShiftRow
c) AddRoundkey
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KEY EXPANSIONKEY EXPANSION
The basic key is written into the state matrix with 4, 6 or 8 columns. The goal of the
key expansion procedure is to extend the number of keys in such a way that each
time a key is used actually a new key is used.
The key extension algorithm generates new columns Wi of the state matrix from the
columns Wi -1 and Wi-k using the following rule
Wi = Wi-k ⊕ V,
where
F (Wi–1), if i mod k = 0
V = G (Wi –1 ), if i mod k = 4 and Dk = 256 bits,
Wi –1 otherwise
where the function G performs only the byte-substitution of the corresponding
bytes. Function F is defined in a quite a complicated way.
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STEPS of ENCRYPTIONSTEPS of ENCRYPTION
AddRoundKey procedure adds byte-wise and bit-wise current key to
the current contents of the state matrix.
ShiftRow procedure cyclically shifts i-th row of the state matrix by i
shifts.
MixColumns procedure multiplies columns of the state matrix by the
matrix
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DECRYPTION in AESDECRYPTION in AES
Steps of the encryption algorithm map an input state matrix into an output matrix.
All encryption operations have inverse operations. Decryption algorithm applies, in
the opposite order as at the encryption, the inverse versions of the encryption
operations.
DECRYPTIONDECRYPTION
1. Key Expansion
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2. AddRoundKey
3. do k+5 - times:
a) InvByteSub
b) InvShiftRow
c) InvMixColumn
d) AddInvRoundKey
4. Final round
a) InvByteSub
b) InvShiftRow
c) AddRoundKey

SECURITY GOALSSECURITY GOALS
The goal of the authors was that Rijndael (AES) is K-secure and
hermetic in the following sense:
Definition A cryptosystem is K-secure if all possible attack strategies
for it have the same expected work factor and storage requirements as
for the majority of possible cryptosystems with the same security.
Definition A block cryptosystem is hermetic if it does not have
weaknesses that are not present for the majority of cryptosystems with
the same block and key length.
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MISCELANEOUSMISCELANEOUS
Pronounciation of the name Rijndael is as “Reign Dahl'‘ or “rain Doll''
or “Rhine Dahl''.
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PKC versus SKC - comparisonsPKC versus SKC - comparisonsIV054
Security: If PKC is used, only one party needs to keep secret a (single) key;
If SKC is used, both party needs to keep secret one key. No PKC has
been shown perfectly secure. Perfect secrecy has been shown for One-
time Pad and for quantum generation of classical keys.
Longevity: With PKC, keys may need to be kept secure for (very) long time;
with SKC a change of keys for each session is recommended.
Key management: If a multiuser network is used, then fewer private keys are
required with PKC than with SKC.
Key exchange: With PKC no key exchange between communicating parties
is needed; with SKC a hard-to-implement secret key exchange is needed.
Digital signatures: Only PKC are usable for digital signatures.
Efficiency: PKC is much slower than SKC (10 times when software
implementations of RSA and DES are compared).
Key sizes: Keys for PKC (2048 bits for RSA) are significantly larger than for
SCK (128 bits for AES).
Non-repudiation: With PKC we can ensure, using digital signatures, non-
repudiation, but not with SKC.

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Modern cryptography uses both SKC and PKC, in so-
called hybrid cryptosystems or in digital envelops to
send a message m using a secret key k, public
encryption exponent e, and secret decryption exponent
d, as follows:
1. Key k is encrypted using e and sent as
e(k)
2. Secret decription exponent d is used to get
k=d(e(k))
3 SKC with k is then used to encrypt a message

KEY MANAGEMENTKEY MANAGEMENT
Secure methods of key management are extremely important. In practice, most of
the attacks on public-key cryptosystems are likely to be at the key management
levels.
Problems: How to obtain securely an appropriate key pair? How to get other
people’s public keys? How to get confidence in the legitimacy of other's public
keys? How to store keys? How to set, extend,… expiration dates of the keys?
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Who needs a key? Anyone wishing to sign a message, to verify signatures, to
encrypt messages and to decrypt messages.
How does one get a key pair? Each user should generate his/her own key pair.
Once generated, a user must register his/her public-key with some central
administration, called a certifying authority. This authority returns a certificate.
Certificates are digital documents attesting to the binding of a public-key to an
individual or institutions. They allow verification of the claim that a given public-key
does belong to a given individual. Certificates help prevent someone from using a
phony key to impersonate someone else. In their simplest form, certificates contain
a public-key and a name. In addition they contain: expiration date, name of the
certificate issuing authority, serial number of the certificate and the digital signature
of the certificate issuer.

How are certificates usedHow are certificates used – certification authorities– certification authorities
The most secure use of authentication involves enclosing one or more certificates
with every signed message. The receiver of the message verifies the certificate
using the certifying authorities public-keys and, being confident of the public-keys of
the sender, verifies the message's signature. There may be more certificates
enclosed with a message, forming a hierarchical chain, wherein one certificate
testifies to the authenticity of the previous certificate. At the top end of a certificate
hierarchy is a top-level certifying-authority to be trusted without a certificate.
Example According to the standards, every signature points to a certificate that
validates the public-key of the signer. Specifically, each signature contains the
name of the issuer of the certificate and the serial number of the certificate.
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How do certifying authorities store their private keys?How do certifying authorities store their private keys?
It is extremely important that private-keys of certifying authorities are stored
securely. One method to store the key in a tamperproof box called a Certificate
Signing Unit, CSU.
The CSU should, preferably, destroy its contents if ever opened. Not even
employees of the certifying authority should have access to the private-key itself,
but only the ability to use private-key in the certificates issuing process.
CSU are for sells
Note: PKCS - Public Key Certification Standards.

What is PKI?What is PKI?
• PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) is an infrastructure that allows to
handle public-key problems for the community that uses public-key
cryptography.
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• Structure of PKI
Security policy that specifies rules under which PKI can be handled.
Products that generate, store, distribute and manipulate keys.
Procedures that define methods how
- to generate and manipulate keys
- to generate and manipulate certificates
- to distribute keys and certificates
- to use certificates.
Authorities that take care that the general security policy is fully
performed.

PKI users and systemsPKI users and systems
• Certificate holder
• Certificate user
• Certification authority (CA)
• Registration authority (RA)
• Revocation authority
• Repository (to publish a list of certicates, of revocated certificates,...)
• Policy management authority (to create certification policy)
• Policy approving authority
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SECURITY of CSECURITY of Certification and Registration authoritiesertification and Registration authorities
PKI system is so secure how secure are systems for certificate authorities (CA) and
registration authorities (RA).
Basic principles to follow to ensure necessary security of CA and RA.
• Private key of CA has to be stored in a way that is secure against intentional
professional attacks.
• Steps have to be made for renovation of the private key in the case of a collapse
of the system.
• Access to CA/RA tools has to be maximally controlled.
• Each requirement for certification has to be authorized by several independent
operators.
• All key transactions of CA/RA have to be logged to be available for a possible
audit.
• All CA/RA systems and their documentation have to satisfy maximal requirements
for their reliability.
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PUBLIC-KEYPUBLIC-KEY INFRASTRUCTUREINFRASTRUCTURE PROBLEMSPROBLEMS
Public-key cryptography has low infrastructure overhead, it is more
secure, more truthful and with better geographical reach. However, this
is due to the fact that public-key users bear a substantial
administrative burden and security advantages of the public key
cryptography rely excessively on the end-users' security discipline.
Problem 1: With public-key cryptography users must constantly be
careful to validate rigorously every public-key they use and must take
care for secrecy of their private secret keys.
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Problem 2: End-users are rarely willing or able to manage keys
sufficiently carefuly.
User's behavior is the weak link in any security system, and public-key
security is unable to reinforce this weakness.
Problem 3: Only sophisticated users, like system administrators, can
realistically be expected to meet fully the demands of public-key
cryptography.

Main components of public-key infrastructureMain components of public-key infrastructure
• The Certification Authority (CA) signs user's public-keys.
(There has to be a hierarchy of CA, with a root CA on the top.)
• The Directory is a public-access database of valid certificates.
• The Certificate Revocation List (CRL) - a public-access database of invalid
certificates. (There has to be a hierarchy of CRL).
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Stages at which key management issues ariseStages at which key management issues arise
• Key creation: user creates a new key pair, proves his identify to CA. CA signs a
certificate. User encrypts his private key.
• Single sign-on: decryption of the private key, participation in public-key protocols.
• Key revocation: CRL should be checked every time a certificate is used. If a user's
secret key is compromised, CRL administration has to be notified.

MAIN PROBLEMSMAIN PROBLEMS
• Authenticating the users: How does a CA authenticate a distant user, when
issuing the initial certificate?
(Ideally CA and the user should meet. Consequently, properly authenticated
certificates will have to be expensive, due to the label cost in a face-to-face identity
check.)
• Authenticating the CA: Public key cryptography cannot secure the distribution and
the validation of the Root CA's public key.
• Certificate revocation lists: Timely and secure revocation presents big scaling and
performance problems. As a result public-key deployment is usually proceeding
without a revocation infrastructure.
(Revocation is the classical Achilles' Heel of public-key cryptography.)
• Private key management: The user must keep his long-lived secret key in
memory during his login-session: There is no way to force a public-key user to
choose a good password.
(Lacking effective password-quality controls, most public-key systems are
vulnerable to the off-line guessing attacks.)
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LIFE CYCLE of CERTIFICATESLIFE CYCLE of CERTIFICATES
Issuing of certificates
• registration of applicants for certificates;
• generation of pairs of keys;
• creation of certificates;
• delivering of certificates;
• dissemination of certificates;
• backuping of keys;
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Using of certificates
• receiving a certificate;
• validation of the certificate;
• key backup and recovery;
• automatic key/certificate updating
Revocation of certificates
• expiration of certificates validity period;
• revocation of certificates;
• archivation of keys and certificates.

PPrettyretty GGoodood PPrivacyrivacy
In June 1991 Phil Zimmermann, made publicly available software that
made use of RSA cryptosystem very friendly and easy and by that he
made strong cryptography widely available.
Starting February 1993 Zimmermann was for three years a subject of
FBI and Grand Jurry investigations, being accused of illegal exporting
arms (strong cryptography tools).
William Cowell, Deputy Director of NSA said: “If all personal computers
in the world - approximately 200 millions - were to be put to work on a
single PGP encrypted message, it would take an average an estimated
12 million times the age of universe to break a single message''.
Heated discussion whether strong cryptography should be allowed
keep going on. September 11 attack brought another dimension into
the problem.
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SECURITY / PRIVACY REALITY and TOOLSSECURITY / PRIVACY REALITY and TOOLSIV054
Concerning security we are winning battles, but we are loosing wars
concerning privacy.
Four areas concerning security and privacy:
• Security of communications – cryptography
• Computer security (operating systems, viruses, …)
• Physical security
• Identification and biometrics
With google we lost privacy.

How cryptographic systems get brokenHow cryptographic systems get brokenIV054
Techniques that are indeed used to break cryptosystems:
By NSA:
• By exhaustive search (up to 280
options).
• By exploiting specific mathematical and statistical weaknesses to
speed up the exhaustive search.
• By selling compromised crypto-devices.
• By analysing crypto-operators methods and customs.
By FBI:
• Using keystroke analysis.
• Using the fact that in practice long keys are almost always designed
from short guessable passwords.

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• 660-bits integers were already (factorized) broken in practice.
• 1024-bits integers are currently used as moduli.
• 512-bit integers can be factorized with a device costing 5 K $ in
about 10 minutes.
• 1024-bit integers could be factorized in 6 weeks by a device costing
10 millions of dollars.

Patentability of cryptographyPatentability of cryptography
• Cryptographic systems are patentable
• Many secret-key cryptosystems have been patented
• The basic idea of public-key cryptography are contained in U.S. Patents 4
200 770 (M. Hellman, W. Diffie, R. Merkle) - 29. 4. 1980 U.S. Patent 4 218 582
(M. Hellman, R. Merkle)
The exclusive licensing rights to both patents are held by “Public Key Partners''
(PKP) which also holds rights to the RSA patent.
All legal challenges to public-key patents have been so far settled before
judgment.
Some patent applications for cryptosystems have been blocked by intervention
of us: intelligence or defense agencies.
All cryptographic products in USA needed export licences from the State
department, acting under authority of the International Traffic in Arms
Regulation, which defines cryptographic devices, including software, as
munition.
Export of cryptography for authentication has not been restricted, Problems
were only whith cryptography for privacy.
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