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15-853:Algorithms in the Real World Cryptography Outline Public Key Cryptography Outline Introduction: terminology, cryptanalysis, security 15-853:Algorithms in the Real World Primitives: one-way functions, trapdoors, … Protocols: digital signatures, key exchange, .. Cryptography 3 and 4 Number Theory: groups, fields, … Private-Key Algorithms: Rijndael, DES Public-Key Algorithms: – Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange – El-Gamal, RSA, Blum-Goldwasser – Quantum Cryptography Case Studies: Kerberos, Digital Cash 15-853 Page 1 15-853 Page 2 Public Key Cryptosystems One-way trapdoor functions Introduced by Diffie and Hellman in 1976. Both Public-Key and Digital signatures make use of one-way trapdoor functions. Plaintext Public Key systems Public Key: K = public key 1 K1 Encryption Ek(M) = C – Encode: c = f(m) K2 = private key – Decode: m = f-1(c) using trapdoor Cyphertext Digital signatures Digital Signatures: K Decryption D (C) = M – Sign: c = f-1(m) using trapdoor 2 k K1 = private key – Verify: m = f(c) K2 = public key Original Plaintext Typically used as part of a more complicated protocol. 15-853 Page 3 15-853 Page 4 1 Example of TLS (previously SSL) Public Key History TLS (Transport Layer Security) is the standard for the web (https), and voice over IP. Some algorithms Protocol (somewhat simplified): Bob -> amazon.com – Diffie-Hellman, 1976, key-exchange based on discrete logs B->A: client hello: protocol version, acceptable ciphers – Merkle-Hellman, 1978, based on “knapsack problem” A->B: server hello: cipher, session ID, |amazon.com|verisign – McEliece, 1978, based on algebraic coding theory hand- B->A: key exchange, {masterkey} – RSA, 1978, based on factoring amazon’s public key shake A->B: server finish: ([amazon,prev-messages,masterkey])key1 – Rabin, 1979, security can be reduced to factoring B->A: client finish: ([bob,prev-messages,masterkey])key2 – ElGamal, 1985, based on discrete logs A->B: server message: (message1,[message1])key1 data – Blum-Goldwasser, 1985, based on quadratic residues B->A: client message: (message2,[message2]) key2 – Elliptic curves, 1985, discrete logs over Elliptic curves |h| = Certificate issuer – Chor-Rivest, 1988, based on knapsack problem = Issuer, <h,h’s public key, time stamp> issuer’s private key – NTRU, 1996, based on Lattices <…>private key = Digital signature {…}public key = Public-key encryption – XTR, 2000, based on discrete logs of a particular field [..] = Secure Hash (…)key = Private-key encryption key1 and key2 are derived from masterkey and session ID 15-853 Page 5 15-853 Page 6 Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Person-in-the-middle attack A group (G,*) and a primitive element (generator) g is made public. – Alice picks a, and sends ga to Bob ga gc – Bob picks b and sends gb to Alice Alice – The shared key is gab Mallory Bob Note the shared key is easy for Alice or Bob to gd gb compute, but assuming discrete logs are hard is Key = gad Key = gcb hard for anyone else to compute. 1 1 Can someone see a problem with this protocol? Mallory gets to listen to everything. 15-853 Page 7 15-853 Page 8 2 ElGamal ElGamal Public-key Cryptosystem Based on the difficulty of the discrete log problem. (G,*) is a group Encode: Invented in 1985 • α a generator for G Pick random k ∈ Z|G| Digital signature and Key-exchange variants • a ∈ Z E(m) = (y1, y2) – Digital signature is AES standard |G| = (α k, m * βk) • β = αa – Public Key used by TRW (avoided RSA patent) G is selected so that it Decode: Works over various groups a -1 is hard to solve the D(y) = y2 * (y1 ) k ka -1 – Zp, discrete log problem. = (m * β ) * (α ) – Multiplicative group GF(pn), = m * βk * (βk)-1 = m – Elliptic Curves Public Key: (α, β) and some description of G You need to know a to Private Key: a easily decode y! 15-853 Page 9 15-853 Page 10 ElGamal: Example Merkle-Hellman Gets “security” from the Subet Sum (also called * Encode: 7 G = Z11 knapsack) which is NP-hard to solve in general. Pick random k = 4 • α = 2 Subset Sum (Knapsack): Given a sequence W = {w ,w , E(m) = (24, 7 * 34) 0 1 • a = 8 …,w }, w ∈ Z of weights and a sum S, calculate a = (5, 6) n-1 i • β = 28 (mod 11) = 3 boolean vector B, such that: Decode: (5, 6) 8 -1 D(y) = 6 * (5 ) = 6 * 4-1 = 6 * 3 (mod 11) * = 7 Even deciding if there is a solution is NP-hard. Public Key: (2, 3), Z11 Private Key: a = 8 15-853 Page 11 15-853 Page 12 3 Merkle-Hellman Merkle-Hellman W is superincreasing if: What we need Encode: n y = E(m) = ∑i=1 mi w’i It is easy to solve the subset-sum problem for • w1, , wn superincreasing superincreasing W in O(n) time. Decode: integers Main idea of Merkle-Hellman: z = a-1 y mod p n • p > ∑i=1 wi and prime -1 n – Hide the easy case by multiplying each w by a = a ∑i=1 mi w’i mod p i • a, 1 ≤ a ≤ n -1 n constant a modulo a prime p = a ∑i=1 miaiwi mod p • w’ = a w mod p n i i = ∑i=1 mi wi – Knowing a and p allows you to retrieve the Solve subset sum prob: Public Key: w’i superincreasing sequence (w1, , wn, z) Private Key: wi, p, a, obtaining m1, mn 15-853 Page 13 15-853 Page 14 RSA Merkle Hellman: Problem Name after Rivest, Shamir and Adleman (1978) but Was broken by Shamir in 1984. apparently invented by Clifford Cocks in 1973. Shamir showed how to use integer programming to Based on difficulty of factoring. * solve the particular class of Subset Sum problems Used to hide the size of a group Zn since: in polynomial time. Factoring has not been reduced to RSA Lesson: don’t leave your trapdoor loose. – an algorithm that generates m from c does not give an efficient algorithm for factoring On the other hand, factoring has been reduced to finding the private-key. – there is an efficient algorithm for factoring given one that can find the private key from the public key. 15-853 Page 15 15-853 Page 16 4 RSA Public-key Cryptosystem RSA continued Why it works: What we need: Public Key: (e,n) D(c) = cd mod n • p and q, primes of Private Key: d = med mod n approximately the 1 + k(p-1)(q-1) same size Encode: = m mod n = m1 + k φ(n) mod n • n = pq m ∈ Zn φ(n) = (p-1)(q-1) E(m) = me mod n = m(m φ(n))k mod n * • e ∈ Z φ(n) = m • d = e-1 mod φ(n) Why is this argument not quite sound? Decode: * φ(n) d What if m ∉ Zn then m ≠ 1 mod n D(c) = c mod n Answer 1: Not hard to show that it still works. Answer 2: jackpot – you’ve factored n 15-853 Page 17 15-853 Page 18 RSA computations Security of RSA To generate the keys, we need to Warning: – Find two primes p and q. Generate candidates – Do not use this or any other algorithm naively! and use primality testing to filter them. Possible security holes: – Find e-1 mod (p-1)(q-1). Use Euclid’s – Need to use “safe” primes p and q. In particular algorithm. Takes time log2(n) p-1 and q-1 should have large prime factors. To encode and decode – p and q should not have the same number of digits. – Take me or cd. Use the power method. Can use a middle attack starting at sqrt(n). Takes time log(e) log2(n) and log(d) log2(n) . – e cannot be too small In practice e is selected to be small so that encoding – Don’t use same n for different e’s. is fast. – You should always “pad” 15-853 Page 19 15-853 Page 20 5 Algorithm to factor given d and e RSA Performance If an attacker has an algorithm that generates d Performance: (600Mhz PIII) (from: ssh toolkit): from e, then he/she can factor n in PPT. Variant Algorithm Bits/key Mbits/sec of the Rabin-Miller primality test. 1024 .35sec/key RSA Keygen Function TryFactor(e,d,n) LasVegas algorithm 2048 2.83sec/key 1. write ed – 1 as 2sr, r odd Probability of pass 1024 1786/sec 3.5 RSA Encrypt 2. choose w at random < n is > .5. 2048 672/sec 1.2 r 3. v = w mod n Will return p or q 1024 74/sec .074 4. if v = 1 then return(fail) RSA Decrypt if it passes. 2048 12/sec .024 5. while v ≠ 1 mod n Try until you pass. ElGamal Enc. 1024 31/sec .031 6. v = v 0 ElGamal Dec. 1024 61/sec .061 7. v = v2 mod n DES-cbc 56 95 8. if v0 = n - 1 then return(fail) twofish-cbc 128 140 9. return(pass, gcd(v0 + 1, n)) Rijndael 128 180 15-853 Page 21 15-853 Page 22 RSA in the “Real World” Factoring in the Real World Part of many standards: PKCS, ITU X.509, Quadratic Sieve (QS): ANSI X9.31, IEEE P1363 Used by: SSL, PEM, PGP, Entrust, … – Used in 1994 to factor a 129 digit (428-bit) number. 1600 Machines, 8 months. The standards specify many details on the implementation, e.g. Number field Sieve (NFS): – e should be selected to be small, but not too small – Used in 1999 to factor 155 digit (512-bit) number. – “multi prime” versions make use of n = pqr… 35 CPU years.
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