Enhancing Encryption: Triple DES & Block Cipher Modes

1. Chapter 6 More on Symmetric Ciphers

2. Contents • Multiple Encryption and Triple DES • Block Cipher Modes of Operation • Stream Ciphers and RC4

3. Multiple Encryption and Triple DES • Multiple Encryption and Triple DES • Double DES • Triple DES with Two Keys • Triple DES with Three Keys

4. Multiple Encryption and Triple DES • DES is vulnerable to a brute-force attack • Use multiple encryption with DES implementations

5. Double DES • Two encryption stages and two keys • C = EK2[EK1[P]] • P = DK1[DK2[C]] • key length : 56 X 2 = 112 bits

6. Reduction to a Single Stage ? • Suppose given any two keys K1 and K2, it would be possible to find a key K3 • If this were the case, double DES would be useless • because the result would be equivalent to a single DES.

7. Reduction to a Single Stage ? • Encryption is a mapping of 64-bit blocks to 64-bit blocks • How many different mappings?

8. Reduction to a Single Stage ? • DES defines one mapping for each different key. • For a total number of mappings • If DES is used twice with different key, it will produce one of the many mappings that is not defined by a single application of DES.

9. Meet-in-the-Middle Attack • Double DES is vulnerable to meet-in-the-middle attack. • C = EK2[EK1[P]], then X = EK1[P] = DK2[C] • Given a known pair (P,C), • Encrypt P for all 256 possible value of K1. • Decrypt C using all 256 possible value of K2. • Check the results of two and find the matching pair. • Test the two keys against a new know pair (P,C).

10. xi = Ek1 ( m ) , i = 1,2, ..., 256 x1 x2 : x256 xj = Dk2( c ) , j = 1,2, ..., 256 x1 x2 : x256 match Meet-in-the-Middle Attack x = Ek1 ( m ) = Dk2 ( c ) Given a pair of ( m, c ),

11. Meet-in-the-Middle Attack • If we have a pair (p1, c1), • If we have two pairs (p1, c1) and (p2, c2),

12. Triple DES • 3DES with two keys • if K1=K2, it can work with single DES.

13. Triple DES • Currently, there are no practical cryptanalytic attacks. • Cost of a brute-force key search • The meet-in-the-middle attack does not work. • The key size is 112 bits.

14. Triple DES • 3DES with three keys • key length of 168bits • If K1=K2 or K2=K3, it can be used as single DES.

15. Block Cipher Modes of Operation • Block Cipher Modes of Operation • Electronic Codebook Mode • Cipher Block Chaining Mode • Cipher Feedback Mode • Output Feedback Mode • Counter Mode

16. Electronic Codebook Mode • The simplest mode • plaintext is handled 64-bits at a time (assume the use in DES) • each block of plaintext is encrypted using the same key

17. Electronic Codebook Mode • Decryption is performed one block at a time, always using the same key

18. Electronic Codebook Mode • Ideal • for short amount of data, such as an encryption key • Characteristic of ECB • the same block of plaintext always produces the same ciphertext. • For lengthy message, the ECB mode may not to be secure.

19. Cipher Block Chaining Mode • To overcome the security deficiencies of ECB, the same plaintext block produces different ciphertext block.

20. Cipher Block Chaining Mode • The simple way to satisfy this requirement is the CBC mode. • The input is the XOR of the current plaintext block and the preceding ciphertext block. • The same key used for each block. • So, repeating patterns not exposed.

21. Cipher Block Chaining Mode • For decryption,

22. Cipher Block Chaining Mode • Initialization vector (IV) • Must be known to both the sender and receiver. • Should be protected as well as the key (for maximum security). • Sending using ECB encryption.

23. Cipher Block Chaining Mode • One reason for protecting the IV is • If an opponent is able to fool the receiver into using a different value for IV, then the opponent is able to invert selected bits in the first block of plaintext. • X[i] denotes the i th bit of the 64bit quantity X. • where he prime notation denotes bit complementation. • This means that if an opponent can predictably change bits in IV, the corresponding bits of the received value of P1 can be changed.

24. Output Feedback Mode • The DES scheme is essentially a block cipher technique. • However, it is possible to convert into a stream cipher, using either the CFB or OFB. • Eliminates the need to pad a message. • Can operate in real time.

25. Output Feedback Mode • Similar to CFB • but, the output of the encryption function to the shift register.

26. Output Feedback Mode

27. Output Feedback Mode • One advantage of the OFB • Bit errors in transmission do not propagate. • If a bit error occurs in C1, only the recovered value of P1 is affected. • The disadvantage of the OFB • It is vulnerable to a message stream modification attack.

28. Cipher Feedback Mode • Message is treated as a stream of bits. • encryption • input is a 64-bit shift register. • initially set to some initialization vector (IV) • the leftmost s bits are XORed with the plaintext segment. • shifted left by s bits and ciphertext is placed in the rightmost s bits. • decryption • the same scheme is used. • received ciphertext is XORed with output of the encryption function to produce the plaintext.

29. Cipher Feedback Mode

30. Counter Mode • Counter mode has increased recently • application to ATM network security and IPSec • The counter value must be different for each plaintext block. • requirement in SP 800-38A • The counter is initialized to some value. • the counter incremented by 1 for each block.

31. Counter Mode

32. Counter Mode • Advantages of CTR mode • Hardware efficiency • Can be done in parallel on multiple blocks of plaintext or ciphertext. • Software efficiency • Processors that support parallel features can be effectively utilized. • Preprocessing • Does not depend on input of the plaintext or ciphertext. • Random access • The i th block of plaintext or ciphertext can be processed in random access fashion.

33. Counter Mode • Advantages of CTR mode • Provable security • CTR is at least as secure as the other modes. • Simplicity • CTR mode requires only the implementation of the encryption algorithm and not decryption algorithm. • The decryption key scheduling need not be implemented.

34. Stream Ciphers and RC4 • Stream Ciphers and RC4 • Stream Cipher Structure • The RC4 Algorithm

35. Stream Cipher

36. Stream Cipher • Important design considerations for a stream cipher • The encryption sequence should have a large period. • The keystream should approximate the properties of a true random number stream as close as possible. • The key needs to be sufficiently long. • A key length of at least 128 bits is desirable.

37. Stream Cipher Structure • The advantage of a stream cipher over a block cipher • Faster • Use far less code

38. RC4 • Designed in 1987 by Ron Rivest • Variable key size and byte-oriented • Based on the use of random permutation • The period of the cipher is likely to be greater than 10100. • Widely used SSL/TLS andrem WEP

39. RC4 • Algorithm overview • Initialize arrays S[0..255] and T[0..255]. • Produce the initial permutation of S • Stream generation

40. RC4

41. RC4 • Initialization of arrays S[0..255] and T[0..255]. • S[i] = i for 0 ≤ i ≤ 255. • S[0] = 1, … , S[255] = 255 • T[i] = K [i mod keylen] for 0 ≤i ≤ 255. • T[0] = K[0], T[1] = K[1], T[keylen+1] = K[1], ...

42. RC4 • Produce the initial permutation of S

43. RC4 Key schedule • Stream generation