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TLS Cryptography In-Depth

By : Dr. Paul Duplys, Dr. Roland Schmitz
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TLS Cryptography In-Depth

By: Dr. Paul Duplys, Dr. Roland Schmitz

Overview of this book

TLS is the most widely used cryptographic protocol today, enabling e-commerce, online banking, and secure online communication. Written by Dr. Paul Duplys, Security, Privacy & Safety Research Lead at Bosch, and Dr. Roland Schmitz, Internet Security Professor at Stuttgart Media University, this book will help you gain a deep understanding of how and why TLS works, how past attacks on TLS were possible, and how vulnerabilities that enabled them were addressed in the latest TLS version 1.3. By exploring the inner workings of TLS, you’ll be able to configure it and use it more securely. Starting with the basic concepts, you’ll be led step by step through the world of modern cryptography, guided by the TLS protocol. As you advance, you’ll be learning about the necessary mathematical concepts from scratch. Topics such as public-key cryptography based on elliptic curves will be explained with a view on real-world applications in TLS. With easy-to-understand concepts, you’ll find out how secret keys are generated and exchanged in TLS, and how they are used to creating a secure channel between a client and a server. By the end of this book, you’ll have the knowledge to configure TLS servers securely. Moreover, you’ll have gained a deep knowledge of the cryptographic primitives that make up TLS.

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Table of Contents (30 chapters)
Preface
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Part I Getting Started
Part I Getting Started
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Chapter 1: The Role of Cryptography in the Connected World
Chapter 1: The Role of Cryptography in the Connected World
1.1 Evolution of cryptography
1.2 The advent of TLS and the internet
1.3 Increasing connectivity
1.4 Increasing complexity
1.5 Example attacks
1.6 Summary
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Chapter 2: Secure Channel and the CIA Triad
Chapter 2: Secure Channel and the CIA Triad
2.1 Technical requirements
2.2 Preliminaries
2.3 Confidentiality
2.4 Integrity
2.5 Authentication
2.6 Secure channels and the CIA triad
2.7 Summary
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Chapter 3: A Secret to Share
Chapter 3: A Secret to Share
3.1 Secret keys and Kerckhoffs’s principle
3.2 Cryptographic keys
3.3 Key space
3.4 Key length
3.5 Crypto-agility and information half-life
3.6 Key establishment
3.7 Randomness and entropy
3.8 Summary
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Chapter 4: Encryption and Decryption
Chapter 4: Encryption and Decryption
4.1 Preliminaries
4.2 Symmetric cryptosystems
4.3 Information-theoretical security (perfect secrecy)
4.4 Computational security
4.5 Pseudorandomness
4.6 Summary
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Chapter 5: Entity Authentication
Chapter 5: Entity Authentication
5.1 The identity concept
5.2 Authorization and authenticated key establishment
5.3 Message authentication versus entity authentication
5.4 Password-based authentication
5.5 Challenge-response protocols
5.6 Summary
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Chapter 6: Transport Layer Security at a Glance
Chapter 6: Transport Layer Security at a Glance
6.1 Birth of the World Wide Web
6.2 Early web browsers
6.3 From SSL to TLS
6.4 TLS overview
6.5 TLS version 1.2
6.6 TLS version 1.3
6.7 Major differences between TLS versions 1.3 and 1.2
6.8 Summary
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Part II Shaking Hands
Part II Shaking Hands
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Chapter 7: Public-Key Cryptography
Chapter 7: Public-Key Cryptography
7.1 Preliminaries
7.2 Groups
7.3 The Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol
7.4 Security of Diffie-Hellman key exchange
7.5 The ElGamal encryption scheme
7.6 Finite fields
7.7 The RSA algorithm
7.8 Security of the RSA algorithm
7.9 Authenticated key agreement
7.10 Public-key cryptography in TLS 1.3
7.11 Hybrid cryptosystems
7.12 Summary
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Chapter 8: Elliptic Curves
Chapter 8: Elliptic Curves
8.1 What are elliptic curves?
8.2 Elliptic curves as abelian groups
8.3 Elliptic curves over finite fields
8.4 Security of elliptic curves
8.5 Elliptic curves in TLS 1.3
8.6 Summary
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Chapter 9: Digital Signatures
Chapter 9: Digital Signatures
9.1 General considerations
9.2 RSA-based signatures
9.3 Digital signatures based on discrete logarithms
9.4 Digital signatures in TLS 1.3
9.5 Summary
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Chapter 10: Digital Certificates and Certification Authorities
Chapter 10: Digital Certificates and Certification Authorities
10.1 What is a digital certificate?
10.2 X.509 certificates
10.3 Main components of a public-key infrastructure
10.4 Rogue CAs
10.5 Digital certificates in TLS
10.6 Summary
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Chapter 11: Hash Functions and Message Authentication Codes
Chapter 11: Hash Functions and Message Authentication Codes
11.1 The need for authenticity and integrity
11.2 What cryptographic guarantees does encryption provide?
11.3 One-way functions
11.4 Hash functions
11.5 Message authentication codes
11.6 MAC versus CRC
11.7 Hash functions in TLS 1.3
11.8 Summary
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Chapter 12: Secrets and Keys in TLS 1.3
Chapter 12: Secrets and Keys in TLS 1.3
12.1 Key establishment in TLS 1.3
12.2 TLS secrets
12.3 KDFs in TLS
12.4 Updating TLS secrets
12.5 TLS keys
12.6 TLS key exchange messages
12.7 Summary
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Chapter 13: TLS Handshake Protocol Revisited
Chapter 13: TLS Handshake Protocol Revisited
13.1 TLS client state machine
13.2 TLS server state machine
13.3 Finished message
13.4 Early data
13.5 Post-handshake messages
13.6 OpenSSL s_client
13.7 Summary
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Part III Off the Record
Part III Off the Record
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Chapter 14: Block Ciphers and Their Modes of Operation
Chapter 14: Block Ciphers and Their Modes of Operation
14.1 The big picture
14.2 General principles
14.3 The AES block cipher
14.4 Modes of operation
14.5 Block ciphers in TLS 1.3
14.6 Summary
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Chapter 15: Authenticated Encryption
Chapter 15: Authenticated Encryption
15.1 Preliminaries
15.2 Authenticated encryption – generic composition
15.3 Security of generic composition
15.4 Authenticated ciphers
15.5 Counter with cipher block chaining message authentication code (CCM)
15.6 AEAD in TLS 1.3
15.7 Summary
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Chapter 16: The Galois Counter Mode
Chapter 16: The Galois Counter Mode
16.1 Preliminaries
16.2 GCM security
16.3 GCM performance
16.4 Summary
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Chapter 17: TLS Record Protocol Revisited
Chapter 17: TLS Record Protocol Revisited
17.1 TLS Record protocol
17.2 TLS record layer
17.3 TLS record payload protection
17.4 Per-record nonce
17.5 Record padding
17.6 Limits on key usage
17.7 An experiment with the OpenSSL s_client
17.8 Summary
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Chapter 18: TLS Cipher Suites
Chapter 18: TLS Cipher Suites
18.1 Symmetric cipher suites in TLS 1.3
18.2 Long-term security
18.3 ChaCha20
18.4 Poly1305
18.5 ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD construction
18.6 Mandatory-to-implement cipher suites
18.7 Summary
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Part IV Bleeding Hearts and Biting Poodles
Part IV Bleeding Hearts and Biting Poodles
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Chapter 19: Attacks on Cryptography
Chapter 19: Attacks on Cryptography
19.1 Preliminary remarks
19.2 Passive versus active attacks
19.3 Local versus remote attacks
19.4 Interactive versus non-interactive attacks
19.5 Attacks on cryptographic protocols
19.6 Attacks on encryption schemes
19.7 Attacks on hash functions
19.8 Summary
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Chapter 20: Attacks on the TLS Handshake Protocol
Chapter 20: Attacks on the TLS Handshake Protocol
20.1 Downgrade attacks
20.2 Logjam
20.3 SLOTH
20.4 Padding oracle attacks on TLS handshake
20.5 Bleichenbacher attack
20.6 Improvements of Bleichenbacher’s attack
20.7 Insecure renegotiation
20.8 Triple Handshake attack
20.9 Summary
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Chapter 21: Attacks on the TLS Record Protocol
Chapter 21: Attacks on the TLS Record Protocol
21.1 Lucky 13
21.2 POODLE
21.3 BEAST
21.4 Sweet32
21.5 Compression-based attacks
21.6 Summary
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Chapter 22: Attacks on TLS Implementations
Chapter 22: Attacks on TLS Implementations
22.1 SMACK
22.2 FREAK
22.3 Truncation attacks
22.4 Heartbleed
22.5 Insecure encryption activation
22.6 Random number generation
22.7 BERserk attack
22.8 Cloudbleed
22.9 Timing attacks
22.10 Summary
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Bibliography
Bibliography
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Index
Index
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8.6 Summary

In this chapter we learned about how to use elliptic curves in cryptography and especially within TLS. Elliptic curves are a special kind of mathematical structure that allows for a commutative group operation. It turns out that the discrete logarithm problem in these groups is harder than in other, more common groups such as 𝔽p∗. Moreover, they offer great flexibility via their curve parameters. We have seen how to perform Diffie-Hellman key exchange using these curves, and how secure curves are chosen to be used within the TLS handshake protocol.

In the next chapter, another application of asymmetric cryptography is introduced, namely digital signatures. Digital signatures are important tools for providing integrity protection and authenticity, but they can also serve yet another security service, namely non-repudiation. In this respect, they are very similar to physical, handwritten signatures.

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