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• MD5 • SHA • Cvhp 6.857 Computer and Network Security Fall Term, 1997 Lecture 9 : Octob er 2, 1997 Lecturer: Ron Rivest Scribe: Jesse Kornblum Topics Hashing in Digital Signatures Hashing Security MD5 BirthdayAttacks SHA CvHP MACs and Hashing 1 Digital Signatures When messages get very long, encrypting them to use as a digital signature with algorithms such as RSA can be very exp ensive. We'd like to sign our messages with something much shorter, a \ ngerprint" of the message, also called a \message digest." To create the ngerprint, we use a function ngerprint function, MD-function, cryp- tographic hash function, etc. that compresses messages of arbitrary length into a preset set. This function, hx, normally pro duces a ngerprint either 128 or 160 bits long. This shorter value is much easier to sign than the full message. Our goal is that: The function h is ecient The length of hx is short The function hx is secure i.e. it has strong collision-resistance, de ned b elow 1 2 3 MESSAGE DIGEST 5 MD5 2 Hashing Security The security of hash functions is measured by the existence of col lisions. A collision is when two di erent messages pro duce the same hash. i.e. hm = hm Here 1 2 are some terms used in describing the security hash functions: 0 Strong Collision-Resistance: It is infeasible for an attacker to nd x and x forming 0 a collision. i.e. hx=hx 0 Weak Collision-Resistance: Given an x and hx, it is infeasible to nd x such 0 0 that hx = hx . This implies that given hx, it is infeasible to nd any x such 0 that hx=hx. i.e. That h is a one-way function. 3 Message Digest 5 MD5 MD5 is a hashing function develop ed by Ron Rivest. Amuch more detailed descrip- 1 tion can b e found in handout 8 or RFC 1321. MD5 works by rst padding the message until it is a multiple of 512 bits long. Padding is done as follows: 1. App end a '1' bit to the message. 2. App end '0' bits until the message is 64 bits shorter than amultiple of 512 bits 3. App end a 64-bit representation of the message's original length The state of MD5 is kept in four 32-bit words, A, B , C , and D , all of which are initialized to magic constant values. MD5 pro cesses the message in 512-bit blo cks. As we pro cess the ith blo ck of message, we up date A , B , C , and D to A , i1 i1 i1 i1 i B , C , and D . The output of MD5, a 128 bit value, is the nal state of A, B , C , i i i and D concatenated. For each blo ck of message, we have four rounds of up dates. Each round up dates one of the four 32-bit words A, B , C ,orD four times. For a total of sixteen up dates p er blo ck of message. Initially on each round, A A , B B , etc. Each of the i i1 i i1 up dates is something similar to A B +A +F B ;C ;D +M +T <<< s, where i i i i i i i i 1 Which actually comes from Applied Cryptography byB.Schneier 3 2 F is a function, M is the ith blo ck of the message, and T and s are magic constants. i i The symbol <<< means \rotate left". At the end of each round, we nish by up dating all of the values one last time, namely: A A + A , B B + B , i i i1 i i i1 etc. 4 Secure Hash Algoritm SHA SHA is a hash function develop ed by the US government. It's similar to MD5, but uses ve 32-bit words and ve rounds per message blo ck to pro duce a 160-bit hash, using linear transformations of the message in each blo ck. 5 Birthday Attacks A birthday attack on a hash function attempts to use the birthday paradox to nd collisions in a hash function. i.e. creating random messages, taking their hash value, and checking if that hash value has b een encountered b efore. For MD5, as an 64 example, an attacker could exp ect to nd collisions after trying 2 messages. Given to day's computing power, this is a dicult, but not imp ossible problem. Hence the move to stronger hashing algorithms, like SHA. 6 CvHP Yet another hash function is CvHP. It's full name is the Chaum-vanHeijst-P tzmann hash function. First, we need to cho ose prime numb ers p and q such that p =2q+1. q Next, we need an and a that are b oth an element of order q i.e. 1 mo d p and that 6= . For security, it must b e dicult to compute log . m 1 The hash function splits the message into two parts m and m . hm ;m = 1 2 1 2 m 2 modp. It is necessary that 1 jm j;jm j q. 1 2 The heart of CvHP is that it's infeasible to nd and . As an example, let's say that we have a collision: m m m m 1 2 3 4 = modp 2 As an example, F a; b; c= a^b_a ^ c 4 7 MACS AND HASH FUNCTIONS We can transform this to b e m m m m 1 3 4 2 = modp If we set r = m m and s = m m , we get 1 3 4 2 r s = modp 1 If then we cho ose t such that t = s modq, we can use rt st = modp rt to get = mo dp. Since we said it's dicult to compute log , an attacker cannot get past this stage. 7 MACs and Hash Functions A hash function can b e used to pro duce a Message Authentication Co de. For example, a prop osal by IBM for Internet messages is that a MAC for each packet should be formed as follows: HM AC = MD5k ;MD5k ;M, where k and k are two parts of a shared secret 1 2 1 2 key..
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