SoK : SSL and HTTPS:

1. SoK: SSL and HTTPS: Revisiting past challenges and evaluating certificate trust model enhancements Presented by: Zhengyang Qu

2. Roadmap • Background • Crypto Protocol Issues in HTTPS • Trust Model Issues in HTTPS • Security Enhancements to CA/B Model • Discussion & On-going Research

3. Background • Objectives • Confidentiality • Server Authentication, Client Authentication (Optional) • Protocol Specification and Implementation • HTTPS: combination of HTTP with SSL/TLS • Client-side (by OS or browser) • Firefox: Mozilla’s NSS, Chrome: underlying OS Windows, OS X, or NSS on Linux • Server-side • Apache (OpenSSL), Windows Server (ISS), Solaris (NSS)

4. Roadmap • Background • Crypto Protocol Issues in HTTPS • Trust Model Issues in HTTPS • Security Enhancements to CA/B Model • Discussion & On-going Research

5. Crypto Protocol Issues in HTTPS • Weakness in Cryptographic Primitives • Weak Encryption & Signature Key Lengths • Symmetric key encryption scheme with 40, 56, or 64 bit keys is subject to a brute-force attack. • Asymmetric encryption schemes like RSA are subject to factoring attacks when used with a 512 bit modulus. • Weak Hash Functions • Collision-resistance & Second Preimage Resistance • MD5, MD2

6. Crypto Protocol Issues in HTTPS • Implementation Flaws & Related Attacks • Pseudorandom Generator (PRG) Seeding • Remote Timing Attack • Oracle Attacks • RSA Encoding • Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) Initialization • Chosen Plaintext Attacks • Compression • CBC Padding

7. Crypto Protocol Issues in HTTPS • Protocol-level Attacks • Ciphersuite Downgrade Attack • Version Downgrade Attack • Renegotiation Attack • Cross-protocol Attack • Diffie-Hellmen or RSA • Not state which key agreement algorithm is used

8. Roadmap • Background • Crypto Protocol Issues in HTTPS • Trust Model Issues in HTTPS • Security Enhancements to CA/B Model • Discussion & On-going Research

9. Trust Model Issues in HTTPs • Certification • Domain Validated (DV) & Extended Validated (EV) • Security Issues • Hostname Validation (CAs) • E-mail validations: top-level domain (admin@domain) WhoIS record • Hostname Validation (Clients) • Parsing Attack (e.g. bank.comevil.com) • Mismatch between CA parsing and browser parsing • EV Downgrading

10. Trust Model Issues in HTTPs • Anchoring Trust • Software Vendors • Private Networks (e.g. corporate environment) • Security Issues • CA Compromise • MITM attack (e.g. two compromised CAs Comodo & DigiNotar) • Compelled Certificates • Nation-states, government (e.g. connection to Facebook via ISPs in Syria)

11. Trust Model Issues in HTTPs • Transitivity of Trust • Intermediate CA certificates • Path Validation Algorithm • Constraints: (1) CA: TRUE (2) pathlen: n • Lack of further chain discovery mechanism • Intermediate CAs are invisible to client before being encountered

12. Trust Model Issues in HTTPs • Maintenance of Trust • Terminate the Validity of a certificate before expiration • Get Revocation Status: CRLs & OCSP (updated on-demand) • Responsive Revocation • Security Issues • Blocking Revocation • Ownership Transfer • Domain: fb.com

13. Trust Model Issues in HTTPs • Indication and Interpretation of Trust • Browser Security Cues, Browser Security Warnings, Mixed Content, Mobile Browsers, HTTP Form Submit • Security Issues • Stripping SSL/TLS • Spoofing Browser Chrome • Conceding a Warning

14. Roadmap • Background • Crypto Protocol Issues in HTTPS • Trust Model Issues in HTTPS • Security Enhancements to CA/B Model • Discussion & On-going Research

15. Security Enhancements to CA/B Model • Security Properties Offered by Primitives • Detecting Certificate Substitution • Detecting SSL/TLS Stripping • PKI Improvements • Evaluation Criteria for Impact on HTTPS • Security & Privacy • Deployability • Usability

17. Security Enhancements to CA/B Model • Evaluation of Proposed Primitives • Certificate Pinning (Client History) • Detection of certificate substitution attacks • Certificate Pinning (Server) • Better level of granularity • Certificate Pinning (Browser Platform) • Avoid blind TOFU approach • Certificate Pinning (DNS) • Who conduct the validation? • DNSSEC, DANE

18. Security Enhancements to CA/B Model • Multipath Probing • Crowdsourcing • Objective information (time-based and space-based) • Subjective information (Omnibroker, Monkeysphere) • Convergence (Firefox), DoubleCheck, Certificate catalogue (Google)

19. Security Enhancements to CA/B Model • Channel-bound Credentials • Modify the authentication value in cookies • Credential-bound Channels • Key Continuity/Manifest • Server-side changes • TACK, DANE, DVCert

20. Security Enhancements to CA/B Model • HTTPS-only Pinning • Many primitives are never invoked unless an HTTPS connection is requested • Domain only supports HTTPS and communicates that with client via a pin • Request headers or TLS extensions • Pre-established in browser • DNS record of the site

21. Security Enhancements to CA/B Model • Visual Cues for Secure POST (e.g. SSLight) • Browser-stored CRL • Certificate Status Stapling • Short-lived Certificates • List of Active Certificates, “Whitelist”

22. Roadmap • Background • Crypto Protocol Issues in HTTPS • Trust Model Issues in HTTPS • Security Enhancements to CA/B Model • Discussion & On-going Research

23. Discussion & On-going Research • Protocol-level TLS-Analysis & Modification • Trust Model Infrastructure • Realistic reflection of trust in the digital world? • Human Element & the Security User Interface • Raising the Bar • Combine the primitives into the infrastructure • Replace the functionality of CAs (e.g. DANE) • Provide recognizable assurance to users

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25. Discussion & On-going Research • Important Orthogonal Problems • Gap between the user’s cognitive notion of what organization connected and the domain name in certificate • Condition for read/write access to cookies • Compromised client-platform