Summary of Last Lecture
Link Layer Services
Framing, link access
Reliable delivery between adjacent nodes
Flow Control
Error Detection
Error Correction
Half-duplex and full-duplex
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Summary of Last Lecture
Error checking and error detection
Parity
checking
Internet checksum
Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
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Summary of Last Lecture
MAC sub-layer and protocols
Channel Partitioning
TDMA, FDMA
CDMA
Random Access
Pure Aloha, Slotted Aloha
1-Persistent/Non-Persistent/P-Persisten CSMA,
CSMA/CD, CSMA/CA
Taking turns
Polling
Token-passing
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Summary of Last Lecture
LAN Technologies
MAC
addressing
ARP
DHCP
Ethernet
Topology
Frame
CSMA/CD with binary exponential backoff
8: Network Security 8-4
Summary of Last Lecture
Interconnection
Hubs
Switches
8: Network Security 8-5
Why Network Security?
Malicious people share your network
Same motivations as traditional world:
Peepers, vandals, graffiti-artists, joy riders, thieves,
burglars, blackmailers.
Problem made more severe the more the Internet
became commercialized
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What is network security?
Confidentiality: only sender, intended receiver
should understand message contents
sender encrypts message
receiver decrypts message
Authentication: sender, receiver want to confirm
identity of each other
Message Integrity: sender, receiver want to ensure
message not altered (in transit, or afterwards)
without detection
Access and Availability: services must be accessible
and available to users
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Friends and enemies: Alice, Bob, Trudy
well-known in network security world
Bob, Alice (lovers!) want to communicate securely
Trudy (intruder) may intercept, delete, add messages
Alice
data
channel
secure
sender
Bob
data, control
messages
secure
receiver
data
Trudy
8: Network Security 8-8
Who might Bob, Alice be?
well, real-life Bobs and Alices!
Web browser/server for electronic
transactions (e.g., on-line purchases)
on-line banking client/server
DNS servers
routers exchanging routing table updates
other examples?
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There are bad guys (and girls) out there!
Q: What can a bad guy do?
A: a lot!
eavesdrop: intercept messages
actively insert messages into connection
impersonation: can fake (spoof) source address
in packet (or any field in packet)
hijacking: take over ongoing connection by
removing sender or receiver, inserting himself
in place
denial of service: prevent service from being
used by others (e.g., by overloading resources)
more on this later
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Available Security Tools
Cryptography/Encryption:
Encode a message in a way that only the communicating
parties can interpret it
Used for secrecy and authentication
Signatures
Allow for the authentication of a messages sender and
the messages integrity
Used for authentication, non-repudiation and integrity
control
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Rules for Encryption
Encryption requires both an encryption algorithm
and an encryption key
Key is a string which controls how the algorithm encrypts
Algorithm:
Should be public and known to all
Inspires trust that the algorithm works
Keys:
Should be long enough to prevent easy breaking of the
encryption
Should be short enough to keep algorithm efficient
Typical key lengths: 56-bit, 128-bit, 256-bit, 512-bit
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The language of cryptography
Alices
K encryption
A
key
plaintext
encryption
algorithm
Bobs
K decryption
B key
ciphertext
decryption plaintext
algorithm
symmetric key crypto: sender, receiver keys identical
public-key crypto: encryption key public, decryption key
secret (private)
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Symmetric key cryptography
substitution cipher: substituting one thing for another
Caesar cipher: fixed letter substitution use a regular pattern
monoalphabetic cipher: substitute any letter for another
plaintext:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ciphertext:
mnbvcxzasdfghjklpoiuytrewq
E.g.:
Plaintext: bob. i love you. alice
ciphertext: nkn. s gktc wky. mgsbc
Q: How hard to break this simple cipher?:
brute force (how hard?)
other?
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Symmetric key cryptography
KA-B
KA-B
plaintext
message, m
encryption ciphertext
algorithm
K (m)
A-B
decryption plaintext
algorithm
m=K
A-B
( KA-B(m) )
symmetric key crypto: Bob and Alice share know same
(symmetric) key: KA-B
e.g., key is knowing substitution pattern in mono
alphabetic substitution cipher
Q: how do Bob and Alice agree on key value?
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Symmetric key crypto: DES
DES: Data Encryption Standard
US encryption standard [NIST 1993]
56-bit symmetric key, 64-bit plaintext input
How secure is DES?
DES Challenge: 56-bit-key-encrypted phrase
(Strong cryptography makes the world a safer
place) decrypted (brute force) in 4 months
no known backdoor decryption approach
making DES more secure:
use three keys sequentially (3-DES) on each datum
use cipher-block chaining
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Symmetric key
crypto: DES
DES operation
initial permutation
16 identical rounds of
function application,
each using different
48 bits of key
final permutation
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AES: Advanced Encryption Standard
new (Nov. 2001) symmetric-key NIST
standard, replacing DES
processes data in 128 bit blocks
128, 192, or 256 bit keys
brute force decryption (try each key)
taking 1 sec on DES, takes 149 trillion
years for AES
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Concerns
Problem with all the cryptography algorithms used so far:
How to communicate the shared key safely
Is there a way to do cryptography without worrying about
this concern?
Yes, public key cryptography
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Public Key Cryptography
Uses two different keys: an encryption key and a
decryption key
Each user holds:
a private decryption key to decrypt messages sent to her
a public encryption key that everyone else should use to
encrypt messages that are sent to her
Important property of public key cryptography
algorithms:
Private decryption key cannot be easily determined by
knowing the public encryption key
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Public Key Cryptography
symmetric key crypto
requires sender,
receiver know shared
secret key
Q: how to agree on key
in first place
(particularly if never
met)?
public key cryptography
radically different
approach [DiffieHellman76, RSA78]
sender, receiver do
not share secret key
public encryption key
known to all
private decryption
key known only to
receiver
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Public key cryptography
+ Bobs public
B key
plaintext
message, m
encryption ciphertext
algorithm
+
K (m)
B
- Bobs private
B key
decryption plaintext
algorithm message
+
m = K B(K (m))
B
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Public key encryption algorithms
Requirements:
+
1 need K B( ) and K - ( ) such that
B
- +
K (K (m)) = m
B
given public key K , it should+be impossible to
compute private key K
B
RSA: Rivest, Shamir, Adelson algorithm
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RSA: Choosing keys
1. Choose two large prime numbers p, q.
(e.g., 1024 bits each)
2. Compute n = pq, z = (p-1)(q-1)
3. Choose e (with e<n) that has no common factors
with z. (e, z are relatively prime).
4. Choose d such that ed-1 is exactly divisible by z.
(in other words: ed mod z = 1 ).
5. Public key is (n,e). Private key is (n,d).
+
KB
KB
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RSA: Encryption, decryption
0. Given (n,e) and (n,d) as computed above
1. To encrypt bit pattern, m, compute
e
c = m e mod n (i.e., remainder when m is divided by n)
2. To decrypt received bit pattern, c, compute
d
m = c d mod n (i.e., remainder when c is divided by n)
Magic
d
m = (m e mod n) mod n
happens!
c
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RSA example:
Bob chooses p=5, q=7. Then n=35, z=24.
e=5 (so e, z relatively prime).
d=29 (so ed-1 exactly divisible by z.
encrypt:
decrypt:
letter
me
12
1524832
c
17
c = me mod n
17
d
c
481968572106750915091411825223071697
m = cd mod n letter
12
l
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RSA:
d
m = (m e mod n) mod n
Why is that
Useful number theory result: If p,q prime and
n = pq, then:
y
y mod (p-1)(q-1)
x mod n = x
mod n
e
(m mod n) d mod n = med mod n
= m
ed mod (p-1)(q-1)
mod n
(using number theory result above)
1
= m mod n
(since we chose ed to be divisible by
(p-1)(q-1) with remainder 1 )
= m
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RSA: another important property
The following property will be very useful later:
-
K (K (m))
+ = m = K (K (m))
B B
use public key
first, followed
by private key
use private key
first, followed
by public key
Result is the same!
8: Network Security 8-
Authentication
Goal: Bob wants Alice to prove her identity
to him
Protocol ap1.0: Alice says I am Alice
I am Alice
Failure scenario??
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Authentication
Goal: Bob wants Alice to prove her identity
to him
Protocol ap1.0: Alice says I am Alice
I am Alice
in a network,
Bob can not see
Alice, so Trudy simply
declares
herself to be Alice
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Authentication: another try
Protocol ap2.0: Alice says I am Alice in an IP packet
containing her source IP address
Alices
I am Alice
IP address
Failure scenario??
8: Network Security 8-
Authentication: another try
Protocol ap2.0: Alice says I am Alice in an IP packet
containing her source IP address
Alices
IP address
Trudy can create
a packet
spoofing
I am Alice
Alices address
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Authentication: another try
Protocol ap3.0: Alice says I am Alice and sends her
secret password to prove it.
Alices
Alices
Im Alice
IP addr password
Alices
IP addr
OK
Failure scenario??
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Authentication: another try
Protocol ap3.0: Alice says I am Alice and sends her
secret password to prove it.
Alices
Alices
Im Alice
IP addr password
Alices
IP addr
OK
playback attack: Trudy
records Alices packet
and later
plays it back to Bob
Alices
Alices
Im Alice
IP addr password
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Authentication: yet another try
Protocol ap3.1: Alice says I am Alice and sends her
encrypted secret password to prove it.
Alices encrypted
Im Alice
IP addr password
Alices
IP addr
OK
Failure scenario??
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Authentication: another try
Protocol ap3.1: Alice says I am Alice and sends her
encrypted secret password to prove it.
Alices encrypted
Im Alice
IP addr password
Alices
IP addr
record
and
playback
still works!
OK
Alices encrypted
Im Alice
IP addr password
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Authentication: yet another try
Goal: avoid playback attack
Nonce: number (R) used only once in-a-lifetime
ap4.0: to prove Alice live, Bob sends Alice nonce, R.
Alice
must return R, encrypted with shared secret key
I am Alice
R
KA-B(R)
Failures, drawbacks?
Alice is live, and
only Alice knows
key to encrypt
nonce, so it must
be Alice!
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Authentication: ap5.0
ap4.0 requires shared symmetric key
can we authenticate using public key techniques?
ap5.0: use nonce, public key cryptography
I am Alice
R
Bob computes
+ -
K A (R)
send me your public key
KA
KA(KA (R)) = R
and knows only Alice
could have the private
key, that encrypted R
such that
+ K (K (R)) = R
A A
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ap5.0: security hole
Man (woman) in the middle attack: Trudy poses as
Alice (to Bob) and as Bob (to Alice)
I am Alice
I am Alice
R
K (R)
T
K (R)
A
Send me your public key
+
K
T
Send me your public key
+
K
A
- +
m = K (K (m))
A A
+
K (m)
A
Trudy gets
- +
m = K (K (m))
T Alice
sends T
m to
+
K (m)
T
encrypted with
Alices public key
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ap5.0: security hole
Man (woman) in the middle attack: Trudy poses as
Alice (to Bob) and as Bob (to Alice)
Difficult to detect:
Bob receives everything that Alice sends, and vice
versa. (e.g., so Bob, Alice can meet one week later and
recall conversation)
problem is that Trudy receives all messages as well!
Need to solve problem in public key distribution
8: Network Security 8-
Digital Signatures
Cryptographic technique analogous to handwritten signatures.
sender (Bob) digitally signs document,
establishing he is document owner/creator.
verifiable, nonforgeable: recipient (Alice) can
prove to someone that Bob, and no one else
(including Alice), must have signed document
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Digital Signatures
Simple digital signature for message m:
Bob signs m by encrypting with his private key
-
KB, creating signed message, KB(m)
Bobs message, m
Dear Alice
Oh, how I have
missed you. I think of
you all the time!
(blah blah blah)
K B Bobs private
key
Public key
encryption
algorithm
K B(m)
Bobs message,
m, signed
(encrypted) with
his private key
Bob
8: Network Security 8-
Digital Signatures (more)
-
Suppose Alice receives msg m, digital signature K B(m)
Alice verifies m signed by Bob by applying Bobs
+
public key KB to KB(m) then checks KB(KB(m) ) = m.
+
If KB(KB(m) ) = m, whoever signed m must have used
Bobs private key.
Alice thus verifies that:
Bob signed m.
No one else signed m.
Bob signed m and not m.
Non-repudiation:
Alice can take m, and signature K B(m) to court and prove
that Bob signed m.
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Message Digests
Computationally expensive
to public-key-encrypt
long messages
Goal: fixed-length, easy- tocompute digital
fingerprint
apply hash function H to
m, get fixed size message
digest, H(m).
large
message
m
H: Hash
Function
H(m)
Hash function properties:
many-to-1
produces fixed-size msg
digest (fingerprint)
given message digest x,
computationally
infeasible to find m such
that x = H(m)
8: Network Security 8-
Internet checksum: poor crypto hash
function
Internet checksum has some properties of hash function:
produces fixed length digest (16-bit sum) of message
is many-to-one
But given message with given hash value, it is easy to find
another message with same hash value:
message
IOU1
00.9
9BOB
ASCII format
494F5531
30302E39
39424F42
B2C1D2AC
message
IOU9
00.1
9BOB
ASCII format
494F5539
30302E31
39424F42
B2C1D2AC
different messages
but identical checksums!
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Digital signature = signed message digest
Alice verifies signature and
integrity of digitally signed
message:
Bob sends digitally signed
message:
large
message
m
H: Hash
function
Bobs
private
key
KB
encrypted
msg digest
H(m)
digital
signature
(encrypt)
encrypted
msg digest
KB(H(m))
large
message
m
H: Hash
function
H(m)
KB(H(m))
Bobs
public
key
KB
digital
signature
(decrypt)
H(m)
equal
?
8: Network Security 8-
Hash Function Algorithms
MD5 hash function widely used (RFC 1321)
computes 128-bit message digest in 4-step
process.
arbitrary 128-bit string x, appears difficult to
construct msg m whose MD5 hash is equal to x.
SHA-1 is also used.
US standard [NIST, FIPS PUB 180-1]
160-bit message digest
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Trusted Intermediaries
Symmetric key problem:
Public key problem:
How do two entities
When Alice obtains
establish shared secret
key over network?
Solution:
trusted key distribution
center (KDC) acting as
intermediary between
entities
Bobs public key (from
web site, e-mail,
diskette), how does she
know it is Bobs public
key, not Trudys?
Solution:
trusted certification
authority (CA)
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Key Distribution Center (KDC)
Alice, Bob need shared symmetric key.
KDC: server shares different secret key with
each
registered user (many users)
Alice, Bob know own symmetric keys, KA-KDC KB-KDC , for
communicating with KDC.
KDC
KA-KDC KP-KDC
KP-KDC
KB-KDC
KA-KDC
KX-KDC
KY-KDC
KB-KDC
KZ-KDC
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Key Distribution Center (KDC)
Q: How does KDC allow Bob, Alice to determine shared
symmetric secret key to communicate with each other?
KDC
generates
R1
KA-KDC(A,B)
Alice
knows
R1
KA-KDC(R1, KB-KDC(A,R1) )
KB-KDC(A,R1)
Bob knows to
use R1 to
communicate
with Alice
Alice and Bob communicate: using R1 as
session key for shared symmetric encryption
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Certification Authorities
Certification authority (CA): binds public key to
particular entity, E.
E (person, router) registers its public key with CA.
E provides proof of identity to CA.
CA creates certificate binding E to its public key.
certificate containing Es public key digitally signed by CA
CA says this is Es public key
Bobs
public
key
Bobs
identifying
information
KB
digital
signature
(encrypt)
CA
private
key
K-
CA
KB
certificate for
Bobs public key,
signed by CA
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Certification Authorities
When Alice wants Bobs public key:
gets Bobs certificate (Bob or elsewhere).
apply CAs public key to Bobs certificate, get
Bobs public key
+
KB
digital
signature
(decrypt)
CA
public
key
Bobs
public
+
K B key
+
K CA
8: Network Security 8-
A certificate contains:
Serial number (unique to issuer)
info about certificate owner, including algorithm
and key value itself (not shown)
info about certificate
issuer
valid dates
digital signature by issuer
8: Network Security 8-
Firewalls
firewall
isolates organizations internal net from larger
Internet, allowing some packets to pass,
blocking others.
public
Internet
administered
network
firewall
8: Network Security 8-
Firewalls: Why
prevent denial of service attacks:
SYN flooding: attacker establishes many bogus TCP
connections, no resources left for real connections.
prevent illegal modification/access of internal data.
e.g., attacker replaces CIAs homepage with
something else
allow only authorized access to inside network (set of
authenticated users/hosts)
two types of firewalls:
application-level
packet-filtering
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Packet Filtering
Should arriving
packet be allowed
in? Departing packet
let out?
internal network connected to Internet via
router firewall
router filters packet-by-packet, decision to
forward/drop packet based on:
source IP address, destination IP address
TCP/UDP source and destination port numbers
ICMP message type
TCP SYN and ACK bits
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Packet Filtering
Example 1: block incoming and outgoing
datagrams with IP protocol field = 17 and with
either source or dest port = 23.
All incoming and outgoing UDP flows and telnet
connections are blocked.
Example 2: Block inbound TCP segments with
ACK=0.
Prevents external clients from making TCP
connections with internal clients, but allows
internal clients to connect to outside.
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Application gateways
Filters packets on
application data as well as
on IP/TCP/UDP fields.
Example: allow select
internal users to telnet
outside.
host-to-gateway
telnet session
application
gateway
gateway-to-remote
host telnet session
router and filter
1. Require all telnet users to telnet through gateway.
2. For authorized users, gateway sets up telnet connection to
dest host. Gateway relays data between 2 connections
3. Router filter blocks all telnet connections not originating
from gateway.
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Limitations of firewalls and gateways
IP spoofing: router
cant know if data
really comes from
claimed source
if multiple apps. need
special treatment, each
has own app. gateway.
client software must
know how to contact
gateway.
filters often use all or
nothing policy for UDP.
tradeoff: degree of
communication with
outside world, level of
security
many highly protected
sites still suffer from
attacks.
e.g., must set IP address
of proxy in Web browser
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Internet security threats
Mapping:
before attacking: case the joint find out
what services are implemented on network
Use ping to determine what hosts have
addresses on network
Port-scanning: try to establish TCP connection
to each port in sequence (see what happens)
nmap ([Link] mapper:
network exploration and security auditing
Countermeasures?
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Internet security threats
Mapping: countermeasures
record traffic entering network
look for suspicious activity (IP addresses, ports
being scanned sequentially)
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Internet security threats
Packet sniffing:
broadcast media
promiscuous NIC reads all packets passing by
can read all unencrypted data (e.g. passwords)
e.g.: C sniffs Bs packets
src:B dest:A
payload
Countermeasures?
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Internet security threats
Packet sniffing: countermeasures
all hosts in organization run software that checks periodically if
host interface in promiscuous mode.
one host per segment of broadcast media (switched Ethernet at
hub)
src:B dest:A
payload
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Internet security threats
IP Spoofing:
can generate raw IP packets directly from application, putting any value
into IP source address field
receiver cant tell if source is spoofed
e.g.: C pretends to be B
A
src:B dest:A
Countermeasures?
payload
B
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Internet security threats
IP Spoofing: ingress filtering
routers should not forward outgoing packets with invalid source
addresses (e.g., datagram source address not in routers network)
great, but ingress filtering can not be mandated for all networks
A
src:B dest:A
payload
B
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Internet security threats
Denial of service (DOS):
flood of maliciously generated packets swamp receiver
Distributed DOS (DDOS): multiple coordinated sources swamp receiver
e.g., C and remote host SYN-attack A
SYN
SYN
SYN
SYN
SYN
B
Countermeasures?
SYN
SYN
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Internet security threats
Denial of service (DOS): countermeasures
filter out flooded packets (e.g., SYN) before reaching host: throw
out good with bad
traceback to source of floods (most likely an innocent,
compromised machine)
SYN
SYN
SYN
SYN
SYN
B
SYN
SYN
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Secure e-mail
Alice wants to send confidential e-mail, m, to Bob.
KS
KS
K (.)
S
.
K ()
+
KB
KS(m )
KS(m )
+
+
KB(KS )
KS( )
Internet
KS
-
KB(KS )
KB ( )
KB
Alice:
symmetric private key, KS.
encrypts message with KS (for efficiency)
also encrypts KS with Bobs public key.
sends both KS(m) and KB(KS) to Bob.
generates random
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Secure e-mail
Alice wants to send confidential e-mail, m, to Bob.
KS
KS
K (.)
S
.
K ()
+
KB
KS(m )
KS(m )
+
+
KB(KS )
KS( )
Internet
KS
-
KB(KS )
KB ( )
KB
Bob:
uses his private key to decrypt and recover KS
uses KS to decrypt KS(m) to recover m
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Secure e-mail (continued)
Alice
wants to provide sender authentication
message integrity.
+
H( )
KA
.
K ()
-
KA(H(m))
KA(H(m))
KA
Internet
KA( )
H(m )
compare
H( )
H(m )
Alice digitally signs message.
sends both message (in the clear) and digital signature.
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Secure e-mail (continued)
Alice
wants to provide secrecy, sender authentication,
message integrity.
-
H( )
KA
KA( )
KA(H(m))
KS( )
m
KS
KS
KB ( )
KB
Internet
KB(KS )
Alice uses three keys: her private key, Bobs public
key, newly created symmetric key
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Pretty good privacy (PGP)
Internet e-mail encryption
scheme, de-facto standard.
uses symmetric key
cryptography, public key
cryptography, hash
function, and digital
signature as described.
provides secrecy, sender
authentication, integrity.
inventor, Phil Zimmerman,
was target of 3-year
federal investigation.
A PGP signed message:
---BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE--Hash: SHA1
Bob:My husband is out of town
[Link] yours,
Alice
---BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE--Version: PGP 5.0
Charset: noconv
yhHJRHhGJGhgg/12EpJ+lo8gE4vB3mqJh
FEvZP9t6n7G6m5Gw2
---END PGP SIGNATURE---
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Secure sockets layer (SSL)
transport layer
security to any TCPbased app using SSL
services.
used between Web
browsers, servers for
e-commerce (shttp).
security services:
server authentication
data encryption
client authentication
(optional)
server authentication:
SSL-enabled browser
includes public keys for
trusted CAs.
Browser requests
server certificate,
issued by trusted CA.
Browser uses CAs
public key to extract
servers public key from
certificate.
check your browsers
security menu to see
its trusted CAs.
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SSL (continued)
Encrypted SSL session:
Browser generates
symmetric session key,
encrypts it with servers
public key, sends encrypted
key to server.
Using private key, server
decrypts session key.
Browser, server know
session key
SSL: basis of IETF
Transport Layer
Security (TLS).
SSL can be used for
non-Web applications,
e.g., IMAP.
Client authentication
can be done with client
certificates.
All data sent into TCP socket
(by client or server)
encrypted with session key.
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IPsec: Network Layer Security
Network-layer secrecy:
sending host encrypts the
data in IP datagram
TCP and UDP segments;
ICMP and SNMP messages.
Network-layer authentication
destination host can
authenticate source IP
address
Two principle protocols:
authentication header (AH)
protocol
encapsulation security
payload (ESP) protocol
For both AH and ESP, source,
destination handshake:
create network-layer
logical channel called a
security association (SA)
Each SA unidirectional.
Uniquely determined by:
security protocol (AH or
ESP)
source IP address
32-bit connection ID
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Authentication Header (AH) Protocol
AH header includes:
authentication, data
connection identifier
integrity, no confidentiality
authentication data:
AH header inserted
source- signed message
between IP header, data
digest calculated over
field.
original IP datagram.
protocol field: 51
next header field:
intermediate routers
specifies type of data
process datagrams as usual
(e.g., TCP, UDP, ICMP)
provides source
IP header
AH header
data (e.g., TCP, UDP segment)
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ESP Protocol
provides secrecy, host
ESP authentication
authentication, data
field is similar to AH
integrity.
authentication field.
data, ESP trailer encrypted.
Protocol = 50.
next header field is in ESP
trailer.
authenticated
encrypted
IP header
ESP
ESP
ESP
TCP/UDP segment
header
trailer authent.
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IEEE 802.11 security
War-driving: drive around Bay area, see what 802.11
networks available?
More than 9000 accessible from public roadways
85% use no encryption/authentication
packet-sniffing and various attacks easy!
Securing 802.11
encryption, authentication
first attempt at 802.11 security: Wired Equivalent
Privacy (WEP): a failure
current attempt: 802.11i
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Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP):
ap4.0
host requests authentication from access point
access point sends 128 bit nonce
host encrypts nonce using shared symmetric key
access point decrypts nonce, authenticates host
no key distribution mechanism
authentication: knowing the shared key is enough
authentication as in protocol
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WEP data encryption
Host/AP share 40 bit symmetric key (semi-
permanent)
Host appends 24-bit initialization vector (IV) to
create 64-bit key
64 bit key used to generate stream of keys, kiIV
kiIV used to encrypt ith byte, di, in frame:
ci = di XOR kiIV
IV and encrypted bytes, ci sent in frame
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802.11 WEP encryption
IV
(per frame)
KS: 40-bit
secret
symmetric
key
plaintext
frame data
plus CRC
key sequence generator
( for given KS, IV)
k1IV k2IV k3IV kNIV kN+1IV kN+1IV
d1
d2
d3
dN
CRC1 CRC4
c1
c2
c3
cN
cN+1 cN+4
802.11
IV
header
WEP-encrypted data
plus CRC
Figure 7.8-new1: 802.11 WEP protocol
Sender-side
WEP encryption
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Breaking 802.11 WEP encryption
Security hole:
24-bit IV, one IV per frame, -> IVs eventually reused
IV transmitted in plaintext -> IV reuse detected
Attack:
Trudy causes Alice to encrypt known plaintext d1 d2
d3 d 4
Trudy sees: ci = di XOR kiIV
Trudy knows ci di, so can compute kiIV
Trudy knows encrypting key sequence k1IV k2IV k3IV
Next time IV is used, Trudy can decrypt!
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802.11i: improved security
numerous (stronger) forms of encryption
possible
provides key distribution
uses authentication server separate from
access point
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802.11i: four phases of operation
STA:
client station
AP: access point
AS:
Authentication
server
wired
network
1 Discovery of
security capabilities
2 STA and AS mutually authenticate, together
generate Master Key (MK). AP servers as pass through
3 STA derives
Pairwise Master
Key (PMK)
4 STA, AP use PMK to derive
Temporal Key (TK) used for message
encryption, integrity
3 AS derives
same PMK,
sends to AP
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EAP: extensible authentication protocol
EAP: end-end client (mobile) to authentication
server protocol
EAP sent over separate links
mobile-to-AP (EAP over LAN)
AP to authentication server (RADIUS over UDP)
wired
network
EAP TLS
EAP
EAP over LAN (EAPoL)
IEEE 802.11
RADIUS
UDP/IP
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