Cryptography and Network Security Chapter 2

1. Cryptography and Network SecurityChapter 2 Fourth Edition by William Stallings

2. Chapter 2 – Classical EncryptionTechniques

3. CRYPTOLOGY Definition: Cryptology : from the Greek Crypto meaning secret or hidden, and ology meaning theory, or science • Two major divisions: Cryptography & Cryptanalysis

4. Symmetric Encryption • or conventional / private-key / single-key • sender and recipient share a common key • all classical encryption algorithms are private-key • was only type prior to invention of public-key in 1970’s • and by far most widely used

5. Some Basic Terminology • plaintext - original message • ciphertextor cryptogram - coded message (The transformed message). • cipher - algorithm for transforming plaintext to ciphertext • keyor cryptovariable – The information used in conjunction with the algorithm to create ciphertext from plaintext • encipher (encrypt) - converting plaintext to ciphertext • decipher (decrypt) - recovering ciphertext from plaintext • cryptography - study of encryption principles/methods • cryptanalysis (codebreaking) - study of principles/ methods of deciphering ciphertext without knowing key • cryptology - field of both cryptography and cryptanalysis

6. Symmetric Cipher Model

7. Requirements • two requirements for secure use of (conventional) symmetric encryption: • a strong encryption algorithm • a secret key known only to sender / receiver • mathematically have: C = EK(P) P = DK(C) • assume encryption algorithm is known • implies a secure channel to distribute key

8. Cryptography • characterize cryptographic system by: 1- The type of operations used for transforming plaintext to ciphertext:- there are two general principles .. - Substitution, in which each element in the plaintext is mapped into another element. - Transposition, in which elements in the plaintext are rearranged. - Product: involve multiple stages of substitutions and transpositions 2- The number of keys used:- - Secret -key (symmetric-key or single-key), where both sender and receiver use the same key. - Public-key (asymmetric or two-key), where both sender and receiver each uses different key. 3- The way in which the plaintext is processed:- - Block Cipher. - Stream Cipher

9. Cryptanalysis • objective to recover key not just message • general approaches: • cryptanalytic attack • brute-force attack

10. Cryptanalytic Attacks • ciphertext only • only know algorithm & ciphertext, is statistical, know or can identify plaintext • known plaintext • know/suspect plaintext & ciphertext • chosen plaintext • select plaintext and obtain ciphertext • chosen ciphertext • select ciphertext and obtain plaintext • chosen text • select plaintext or ciphertext to en/decrypt

11. More Definitions • unconditional security if the ciphertext generated by the scheme does not contain enough information to determine uniquely the corresponding plaintext • no matter how much computer power or time is available, the cipher cannot be broken since the ciphertext provides insufficient information to uniquely determine the corresponding plaintext • computational security • given limited computing resources (eg time needed for calculations is greater than age of universe), the cipher cannot be broken

12. BruteForce Search • always possible to simply try every key • most basic attack, proportional to key size • assume either know / recognise plaintext

13. Classical Substitution Ciphers • where letters of plaintext are replaced by other letters or by numbers or symbols • or if plaintext is viewed as a sequence of bits, then substitution involves replacing plaintext bit patterns with ciphertext bit patterns

14. Types of Ciphers • A Simple Substitution cipher, or Monoalphabetic cipher, is one in which each character in the plain text is replaced with a corresponding character of cipher-text. • A Homophonicsubstitution cipher is like a simple substitution crypto-system, except that a single character of plaintext can map to one of several characters of ciphertext. For Example, A could correspond to 5, 14 and 147. • A Polygram substitution cipher is one which blocks of characters are encrypted in groups. For Example, ABA could correspond to RTQ. • The Playfair cipher is an example of this type of cipher and was used by the British in World War One. • A Polyalphabetic substitution cipher is made up of multiple Monoalphabetic ciphers. The particular cipher used changes with the position of each character in the plain text. For Example Vigenere cipher.

15. Caesar Cipher • earliest known substitution cipher • by Julius Caesar • first attested use in military affairs • replaces each letter by 3rd letter on example: meet me after the toga party PHHW PH DIWHU WKH WRJD SDUWB

16. Caesar Cipher • can define transformation as: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A B C • mathematically give each letter a number a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 • then have Caesar cipher as: c = E(p) = (p + k) mod (26) p = D(c) = (c – k) mod (26)

17. Cryptanalysis of Caesar Cipher • only have 26 possible ciphers • A maps to A,B,..Z • could simply try each in turn a brute force search • given ciphertext, just try all shifts of letters • do need to recognize when have plaintext • eg. break ciphertext "GCUA VQ DTGCM"

18. Brute-force cryptanalysis is easily performed withCaesar Cipher : • The encryption and decryption algorithms are known • There are only 25 keys to try (25 different k values) • The language of plaintext is known and easily recognizable

19. Monoalphabetic Cipher • rather than just shifting the alphabet • could shuffle (jumble) the letters arbitrarily • each plaintext letter maps to a different random ciphertext letter • hence key is 26 letters long Plain: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Cipher: DKVQFIBJWPESCXHTMYAUOLRGZN Plaintext: ifwewishtoreplaceletters Ciphertext: WIRFRWAJUHYFTSDVFSFUUFYA

20. Monoalphabetic Cipher Security • now have a total of 26! = 4 x 1026 keys • with so many keys, might think is secure • but would be !!!WRONG!!! • problem is language characteristics

21. Language Redundancy and Cryptanalysis • human languages are redundant • eg "th lrd s m shphrd shll nt wnt" • letters are not equally commonly used • in English E is by far the most common letter • followed by T,R,N,I,O,A,S • other letters like Z,J,K,Q,X are fairly rare • have tables of single, double & triple letter frequencies for various languages

22. English Letter Frequencies

23. Use in Cryptanalysis • key concept - monoalphabetic substitution ciphers do not change relative letter frequencies • discovered by Arabian scientists in 9th century • calculate letter frequencies for ciphertext • compare counts/plots against known values • if caesar cipher look for common peaks/troughs • peaks at: A-E-I triple, NO pair, RST triple • troughs at: JK, X-Z • for monoalphabetic must identify each letter • tables of common double/triple letters help

24. Example Cryptanalysis • given ciphertext: UZQSOVUOHXMOPVGPOZPEVSGZWSZOPFPESXUDBMETSXAIZ VUEPHZHMDZSHZOWSFPAPPDTSVPQUZWYMXUZUHSX EPYEPOPDZSZUFPOMBZWPFUPZHMDJUDTMOHMQ • count relative letter frequencies (see text) • guess P & Z are e and t • guess ZW is th and hence ZWP is the • proceeding with trial and error finally get: it was disclosed yesterday that several informal but direct contacts have been made with political representatives of the viet cong in moscow

25. Playfair Cipher • not even the large number of keys in a monoalphabetic cipher provides security • one approach to improving security was to encrypt multiple letters • the Playfair Cipher is an example • invented by Charles Wheatstone in 1854, but named after his friend Baron Playfair

26. Playfair Key Matrix • a 5X5 matrix of letters based on a keyword • fill in letters of keyword (sans duplicates) • fill rest of matrix with other letters • eg. using the keyword MONARCHY

27. Encrypting and Decrypting • plaintext is encrypted two letters at a time • if a pair is a repeated letter, insert filler like 'X’ • if both letters fall in the same row, replace each with letter to right (wrapping back to start from end) • if both letters fall in the same column, replace each with the letter below it (again wrapping to top from bottom) • otherwise each letter is replaced by the letter in the same row and in the column of the other letter of the pair

28. Playfair Example Use the following table: Encrypting the message: THE SCHEME REALLY WORKS

29. Playfair Example • Break the plaintext in a two character diagram: • Plaintext is divided into 2-letter diagram • Use X to separate double letter • Use X to pad the last single letter TH ES CH EM ER EA LX LY WO RK SX

30. Cont. Playfair Example • TH -> PR • ES -> SB • CH -> HA • EM -> DG • ER -> DC • EA -> BC • LX -> AZ • LY -> RZ • WO -> VP • RK -> AM • SX -> BW

31. Cont. Playfair Example Thus the message: " THE SCHEME REALLY WORKS“ Becomes "PR SB HA DG DC BC AX RZ VP AM BW “

32. Security of Playfair Cipher • security much improved over monoalphabetic • since have 26 x 26 = 676 digrams • would need a 676 entry frequency table to analyse (verses 26 for a monoalphabetic) • and correspondingly more ciphertext • was widely used for many years • eg. by US & British military in WW1 • it can be broken, given a few hundred letters • since still has much of plaintext structure

33. Hill Cipher • The Hill Cipher uses matrix multiplication to encrypt a message. First, you need to assign two numbers to each letter in the alphabet and also assign numbers to space, . , and ? or !. The key space is the set of all invertible matrices over Z26. 26 was chosen because there are 26 characters, which solves some problems later on.

34. Hill Cipher example Encryption: Use the table and 00 for spaces: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 T U V W X Y Z 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Consider the following message: Herbert Yardley wrote The American Black Chamber

35. Hill Cipher example Break the message into: he rb er ty ar dl ey wr ot et he am er ic an bl ac kc ha mb er Now convert letters into number-pair: 8 5 18 2 5 18 20 25 1 18 4 12 5 25 23 18 15 20 5 20 8 5 1 13 5 18 9 3 1 14 2 12 1 3 11 3 8 1 13 2 5 18 Now using the matrix (key)

36. Hill Cipher example Make the first pair a column vector (h (8) e (5)), and multiply that matrix by the key. Of course, we need our result to be mod 26 The ciphertext is G (7) V (22).

37. Hill Cipher example For the next pair r (18) b (2), and 16 corresponds to P and 10 corresponds to J. Do this for every pair and obtain GVPJKGAJYMRHHMMSCCYEGVPEKGVCWQLXXOBMEZAKKG

38. Hill Cipher Decryption:

39. Polyalphabetic Ciphers • polyalphabetic substitution ciphers • improve security using multiple cipher alphabets • make cryptanalysis harder with more alphabets to guess and flatter frequency distribution • use a key to select which alphabet is used for each letter of the message • use each alphabet in turn • repeat from start after end of key is reached

40. Vigenère Cipher • simplest polyalphabetic substitution cipher • effectively multiple caesar ciphers • key is multiple letters long K = k1 k2 ... kd • ith letter specifies ith alphabet to use • use each alphabet in turn • repeat from start after d letters in message • decryption simply works in reverse

41. Example of Vigenère Cipher • write the plaintext out • write the keyword repeated above it • use each key letter as a caesar cipher key • encrypt the corresponding plaintext letter Plaintext THISPROCESSCANALSOBEEXPRESSED Keyword CIPHERCIPHERCIPHERCIPHERCIPHE Ciphertext VPXZTIQKTZWTCVPSWFDMTETIGAHLH based on a Vigenère Table shown next

42. Vigenère Cipher ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ A ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ B BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZA C CDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZAB D DEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABC E EFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCD F FGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDE G GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEF H HIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFG I IJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGH J JKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHI K KLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJ L LMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJK M MNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKL N NOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLM O OPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMN P PQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNO Q QRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP R RSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ S STUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR T TUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS U UVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST V VWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU W WXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV X XYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW Y YZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWX Z ZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY

43. Vigenère Cipher • By using math. Equation: C= E(p) = (p+ki) mod (26) Plaintext THISPROCESSCANALSOBEEXPRESSED Keyword CIPHERCIPHERCIPHERCIPHERCIPHE Ciphertext VPXZTIQKTZWTCVPSWFDMTETIGAHLH

44. Security of Vigenère Ciphers • have multiple ciphertext letters for each plaintext letter • hence letter frequencies are obscured • but not totally lost • start with letter frequencies • see if look monoalphabetic or not • if not, then need to determine number of alphabets, since then can attach each

45. Kasiski Method • method developed by Babbage / Kasiski • repetitions in ciphertext give clues to period • so find same plaintext an exact period apart • which results in the same ciphertext • of course, could also be random fluke • eg repeated “VTW” in previous example • suggests size of 3 or 9 • then attack each monoalphabetic cipher individually using same techniques as before

46. Autokey Cipher • ideally want a key as long as the message • Vigenère proposed the autokey cipher • with keyword is prefixed to message as key • knowing keyword can recover the first few letters • use these in turn on the rest of the message • but still have frequency characteristics to attack • eg. given key deceptive key: deceptivewearediscoveredsav plaintext: wearediscoveredsaveyourself ciphertext:ZICVTWQNGKZEIIGASXSTSLVVWLA

47. Another Classical Substitution Ciphers • Keyword mixed Example: keyword= AHMAD becomes AHMD K= 3 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z X Y Z A H M D B C E F G I J K L N O P Q R S T U V W M= BE OR NOT TO BE C=YH KO J KQ QKYH

48. Another Classical Substitution Ciphers Transposed keyword mixed Example: 1- keyword= AHMAD becomes AHMD 2- A H M D B C E F G I J K L N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 3- A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A B G L Q U Y H C I N R V Z M E J O S W D F K P T X 4- M= BE OR NOT TO BE C= BQ JO ZMW WM BQ

49. One-Time Pad • This technique was introduced by army signal officer Joseph Mauborgne. Which is also called Vernam. • He suggested using a random key that is as long as the message. • A message encrypted using a one-time pad cannot be broken because the encryption key is a random number and because the key is used only once • problems in generation & safe distribution of key

50. One-Time Pad (OTP) • Step 1:  Create the key... • You need to create a random key. HLMSEZRBHPSJOTDW • You need a method for converting alphabet characters into numbers. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 T U V W X Y Z 20 21 22 23 24 25 26