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Post-Quantum Authentication in TLS 1.3: a Performance Study Post-Quantum Authentication in TLS 1.3: A Performance Study Dimitrios Sikeridis∗, Panos Kampanakisy, Michael Devetsikiotis∗ [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] ∗ Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA ySecurity & Trust Organization, Cisco Systems, USA Updates: Initially uploaded to Cryptology ePrint Archive which builds encrypted tunnels between digital entities. Studies on Jan 23, 2020. Revised to the submitted NDSS 2020 camera- suggest that over 60% of Internet connections are implemented ready manuscript on Jan 27, 2020. Revised to include clari- over the TLS-based secure HTTPS protocol [20], [64]. TLS fication in Section VII-C on optimizing the TCP initcwnd adoption is expected to keep increasing as users and client on Feb 26, 2020. vendors strive for ubiquitous encryption and privacy [51]. Abstract—The potential development of large-scale quantum Apart from connection integrity and confidentiality, TLS computers is raising concerns among IT and security research provides authentication usually with the use of X.509 certifi- professionals due to their ability to solve (elliptic curve) discrete cates [45]. Such certificates are issued by trusted third-parties logarithm and integer factorization problems in polynomial time. called Certificate Authorities (CAs). Endpoints verify the All currently used public key algorithms would be deemed insecure in a post-quantum (PQ) setting. In response, the National communicating peer’s identity and public key (PK) contained Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has initiated a pro- inside his certificate by leveraging a chain of certificates that is cess to standardize quantum-resistant crypto algorithms, focusing rooted to a pre-trusted root CA. The two most popular digital primarily on their security guarantees. Since PQ algorithms signature algorithms used in certificates today are the Elliptic present significant differences over classical ones, their overall Curve Digital Signature (ECDSA) and RivestShamirAdleman evaluation should not be performed out-of-context. This work (RSA). Their security guaranties rely on the hardness of the presents a detailed performance evaluation of the NIST signa- elliptic curve discrete logarithm (ECDL) and integer factoriza- ture algorithm candidates and investigates the imposed latency tion (IF) problems respectively. on TLS 1.3 connection establishment under realistic network conditions. In addition, we investigate their impact on TLS While the security of the aforementioned schemes cannot session throughput and analyze the trade-off between lengthy be practically challenged by conventional computer systems, PQ signatures and computationally heavy PQ cryptographic this would not be the case in a post-quantum world where operations. Our results demonstrate that the adoption of at least a large scale quantum computer has become a reality [62]. two PQ signature algorithms would be viable with little additional Shor’s quantum algorithm [76], [87], assuming a practical overhead over current signature algorithms. Also, we argue that quantum computer (QC) was available, would solve ECDL and many NIST PQ candidates can effectively be used for less time- sensitive applications, and provide an in-depth discussion on the IF problems in polynomial time which would render ECDSA integration of PQ authentication in encrypted tunneling protocols, and RSA insecure. In this scenario, a QC-equipped attacker along with the related challenges, improvements, and alternatives. would be able to impersonate signers that use these algorithms. Finally, we propose and evaluate the combination of different PQ Thus, encrypted tunnel (e.g. TLS, IKEv2) authentication, PK signature algorithms across the same certificate chain in TLS. infrastructure (PKI), CAs, and software signing would be Results show a reduction of the TLS handshake time and a broken. significant increase of a server’s TLS tunnel connection rate over using a single PQ signature scheme. To address the issue, the cryptographic community has been researching quantum-resistant public key algorithms for some time, while the US NIST started a public project to I. INTRODUCTION standardize quantum-resistant public key encapsulation and Digital communications have completely penetrated ev- signature algorithms. Similarly, ETSI has formed a Quantum- eryday life and the physical world as enablers of numerous Safe Working Group [32] that aims to make assessments and critical services including telemedicine, online banking, mas- recommendations on the various proposals from industry and sive e-commerce, machine-to-machine automation, mobile and academia regarding real-world deployments of quantum-safe cloud computing. In this reality, public-key cryptography is cryptography. Moreover, the IETF has seen multiple proposals ubiquitous in almost all cryptographic protocols, such as TLS that attempt to introduce and investigate PQ algorithms in protocols like TLS and IKE [33], [40], [68], [91], [93]. Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium 2020 At the moment of this writing, NIST’s evaluation pro- 23-26 February 2020, San Diego, CA, USA cess has moved from Round 1 to Round 2 where 26 PQ ISBN 1-891562-61-4, https://dx.doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2020.24203 www.ndss-symposium.org algorithms were chosen with security guarantees being the Permission to freely reproduce all or part of this paper only for non- primary criterion, while performance was treated as a future commercial purposes is granted provided that copies bear this notice and the goal [2]. Evidently, the actual integration of these algorithms full citation on the first page. into existing protocols (e.g., TLS, IKEv2, SSH) and their (v) We provide an in-depth discussion of PQ authentication coexistence with today’s Internet infrastructure present chal- challenges for encrypted tunnelling protocols, alternatives, and lenges that pertain to (a) additional latency due to their heavy present insights towards optimizing future deployments. operations, (b) communication overhead from the increased public key and signature sizes, and (c) optimal use of exist- Note that we do not evaluate the PQ security claims or ing hardware towards faster implementations. These gaps are security proofs of the PQ algorithms. These will be assessed actively being studied by research teams in the industry with in the NIST standardization process. We also do not perform NXP Semiconductors, Microsoft and Queensland University an exhaustive benchmark of all the available parameter sets of of Technology [15], Amazon [18], Cloudflare and Google the signature algorithms under consideration by NIST. Relying focusing on the impact of key exchange mechanisms (KEMs) on preliminary findings and individual algorithm claims, we on TLS [52], [54]–[56]. have explicitly chosen to focus on a subset of algorithms and parameter sets that would seamlessly fit in TLS. To the These efforts mostly focus on TLS PQ key exchange as best of our knowledge, this is the first work that assesses confidentiality is considered more urgent. Since a QC-equipped the performance of PQ certificates in TLS 1.3 by considering attacker would be able to decrypt stored communications realistic network conditions. retroactively, ensuring quantum-resistant encryption for critical data is a priority. This is not the case with authentication as The rest of the paper is organized as follows: Section II digital entity impersonation cannot happen retroactively. How- presents background on X.509 PKI and TLS 1.3. In Section III, ever, there are numerous incentives that drive the early study the different PQ candidate signature families and algorithms of PQ authentication in today’s protocols. First, PKI refresh are presented, while Section IV details the integration of cycles are traditionally long and migration to new primitives PQ authentication into TLS 1.3. Section V presents the ex- can take years. A case in point is ECDSA. Even though perimental procedure, results and their analysis. Section VI it was standardized in 2005 [4] offering clear performance summarizes related work. Finally, Section VII discusses the advantages over RSA [39], its adoption was still not broad general implications and potential solutions of integrating a decade later. Finally, the computational performance of PQ new PQ signatures in encrypted tunnels, while Section VIII algorithms, along with the fact that the sizes of the resulting PQ concludes this paper. certificates are significantly larger, will definitely impact the TLS handshake by worsening user experience and connection II. BACKGROUND performance. Thus, it is important to investigate and identify This section presents an overview of the TLS 1.3 hand- promising PQ signature candidates specifically for utilization shake protocol, along with a summary of the X.509 PKI in TLS. currently used in TLS. In this paper, we study the overhead introduced by PQ certificates in the establishment of TLS 1.3 tunnels. Our A. X.509 Certificates and PKI goal is to identify PQ signature candidates that could be employed in TLS without major protocol updates, measure A digital entity’s (e.g., a server) identity is bound to its their performance in real-world deployments and contribute to public key via a digital certificate. Since X.509 is the most the overall discussion about their use in encrypted tunnels. The common PKI standard adopted by IETF protocols, X.509 key contributions of our work are summarized as follows: certificates play an important role
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