Standards and Protocols

1. Standards and Protocols Chapter 7

2. Objectives • Identify the standards involved in establishing an interoperable Internet PKI. • Explain interoperability issues with PKI standards. • Describe how the common Internet protocols implement the PKI standards.

3. Key Terms • Certificate • Certificate Authority (CA) • Certificate Revocation List (CRL) • Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP) • IPsec • Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) • Public key infrastructure (PKI) • Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

4. Key Terms (continued) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS) X.509

5. Standards and Protocols Commercial use of the Internet has been one of the biggest growth industries since the 1990s. Public key infrastructures (PKI) are implemented to secure transactions online. Three categories of standards associated with PKI: Standards that define the PKI Standards that define the interface between applications and the underlying PKI Other standards

6. Relationships Between PKI Standards and Protocols

7. PKIX Standard and PKCS Two main standards for implementing PKI. Both based on X.509 standard. PKIX produced by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF); interactions and operations have four component types: The user, certificate authority (CA), registration authority (RA), and the certificate revocation list (CRLs) PKCS produced by RSA security.

8. The PKIX Model

9. PKIX Standard PKIX working group addresses five major areas: Outlines certificate extensions and content not covered by X.509 v3 and the format of version Provides certificate management message formats and protocols, defining the data structures, management messages, and management functions for PKIs Outlines certificate policies and certification practices statements (CPSs), establishing the relationship between policies and CPSs Specifies operational protocols, defining the protocols for certificate handling Includes time-stamping and data certification and validation services

10. Attribute Certificates and Qualified Certificates Attribute Certificate (AC) is used to grant permissions using rule-based, role-based, and rank-based access controls. ACs are used to implement a privilege management infrastructure (PMI). Qualified Certificate (QC) is based on European Commission term used to identify certificates with specific legislative uses. The PKIX QC profile indicates a certificate used to identify a specific individual with a high level of assurance in a nonrepudiation service.

11. The PKIX PMI Model

12. Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) fills gaps in standards that existed for implementing PKI. PKCS is composed of 13 active standards and 2 discontinued standards.

13. 15 Public Key Cryptography Standards

14. 15 Public Key Cryptography Standards (continued)

15. 15 Public Key Cryptography Standards (continued)

16. X.509 X.509 is the portion of the X.500 standard that addresses the structure of certificates used for authentication. X.509 specifies standard formats for public key certificates, certificate revocation lists, and Attribute Certificates. Version 3 is the current version of the X.509 standard.

17. X.509 Certificate Components

18. X.509 Certificate Components (continued)

19. X.509 Certificate Components (continued)

20. Certificates Authorities (CA) The root CA issues its own certificate. Certificates can be traced through a path to the root CA. Each entity that is issued a certificate must be uniquely identifiable. CAs determine what identifier is unique.

21. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) Provide secure connections between the client and server for exchanging information Provide authentication and confidentiality of information transfers Provide data integrity and security over networksby encrypting network connections at the transport layer

22. SSL/TLS TLS & SSL are not interchangeable; TLS is the more modern of the two. TLS is superior to SSL since SSL’s use of hashing forces a reliance on MD5 rather than SHA1. TLS is composed of two parts. TLS Record Protocol TLS Handshake Protocol

23. TLS Record Protocol TLS Record protocol send data by: Fragmenting message data into manageable blocks Optionally compressing the data Applying a message authentication code (MAC) to the data Encrypting the data Transmitting the results Received data is decrypted, verified, decompressed, and reassembled and sent on to the higher-level client.

24. TLS Handshake Protocol

25. Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP) Provides a method for implementing a key exchange protocol and for negotiating a security policy Defines procedures and packet formats to negotiate, establish, modify, and delete security associates

26. ISAKMP (continued) ISAKMP supports SAs at all layers of the network stack. A Security Association (SA) is a relationship in which two or more entities define how they will communicate securely through a two step process: Entities agree on how to secure messages Entities determine the SAs for protocols to be used for remainder of communications

27. ISAKMP Header Format

28. Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) A protocol to obtain X.509 certificates in a PKI. Provides the following certificate operations: CA establishment, including creation of the initial CRL and export of the public key for the CA Certification of an end-entity CMP also defines mechanisms for performing these operations, either online or offline using files, e-mail, tokens, or web operations.

29. The XML Key Management Specification XKMS Defines services to manage PKI operations within XML Used for authentication and verification of electronic signatures Allows certificates to be managed, registered, or revoked Services accessible via XML protocol, which is often easier to interface with than PKI

30. The XML Key Management Specification XKMS (continued) Functions on three tiers of service: Tier 0 is the retrieval method; provides a means for retrieving key information by embedding references to the key within the XML signature. Tier 1 is called the locate service; XKMS serves as a relay between the client and the PKI. Tier 2 is called the validate service; XKMS is actively involved in verifying the relation between the PKI information and the document containing the XML signature.

31. XKMS Tier 0 Retrieval

32. XKMS Tier 1 Retrieval

33. XKMS Tier 2 Locate Service

34. Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Provides a way to send and receive encrypted and signed mime data. Undergone several revisions, most recent completed in 2004 by IETF and requires: Requires the use of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Frequent changes have made the standard difficult to implement.

35. IETF S/MIME v3 Specifications Includes specifications for all the following: Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) S/MIME v3 message specification S/MIME v3 certificate-handling specification Enhanced security services (ESS) for S/MIME

36. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) Program used to encrypt and decrypt e-mails and files Provides the ability to digitally sign a message How PGP works Creator uses encryption program to create a key pair. Public key designed to give freely to others Private key designed to be known only be the creator Messages encrypted by the sender using the recipients public key. The recipients private key is used to decrypt the message.

37. How PGP Works • PGP uses a variation of the standard public key encryption process. • An individual (here called the creator) uses the encryption program to create a pair of keys. • One key is known as the public key and is designed to be given freely to others. • The other key is called the private key and is designed to be known only by the creator. • Individuals who want to send a private message to the creator encrypt the message using the creator’s public key. • The algorithm is designed such that only the private key can decrypt the message, so only the creator will be able to decrypt it.

38. HTTPS Uses SSL to secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) communications Uses TCP port 443 Supports 40-bit RC4 encryption algorithm and 128-bit encryption

39. IPsec Collection of IP security features designed to introduce security at the network layer Optional in IPv4, required in IPv6 Two types of security service: Transport mode can be used to ensure authentication and confidentiality for data alone. Tunnel mode can be used to ensure authentication and confidentiality for both data and header.

40. Certificate Enrollment Protocol (CEP) Designed to support certificate issuance, distribution, and revocation using existing technologies Uses PKCS #7 and PKCS #10 to define common message syntax

41. Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS) Describes various standards for data communication issues. Issued through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Three main categories of FIPS publications: Hardware and software standards/guidelines Data standards/guidelines Computer security standards/guidelines Products sold to U.S. government must comply to relevant FIPS standards.

42. Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS) Provides security for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Implemented due to the limited memory and processing of WAP-enabled phones Implemented in one of three classes: Class 1: anonymous authentication Class 2: server authentication Class 3: server and client authentication Class 3 the strongest form of WTLS

43. Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) It allows the encapsulation of one packet inside another to hide the original packet. Its use is widespread and it’s easy to configure.

44. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) Used to protect wireless communications from being intercepted Used to prevent unauthorized access to the wireless network Part of the original 802.11 standard WEP 1 supported 64 bit encryption; WEP 2 supports 128 bit encryption Both WEP 1 and WEP 2 vulnerable to various attack vectors

45. WEP Security Issues • Wireless networking with 802.11 is common. • WEP is an optional security protocol with significant issues: • It uses a 24-bit initialization vector as a seed. • This allows for more than 16 million vectors. • At modern networks speeds it does not take long for initialization vectors to repeat. • The secret key is only 40 bits, and is also quickly breakable. • Some provides use 128-bit WEP but is almost equally vulnerable.

46. ISO/IEC 27002 - Formerly ISO 17799 Standard designed for creating and implementing security policies Contains material on 12 subject areas: Risk assessment - Determine the impact of risks Security policy - Guidance and policy provided by management Organization of information security Governance - Structure to implement security policy Asset management - Inventory and classification of assets Human resources security - Policies and procedures addressing security for employees including hire, change, departure

47. ISO/IEC 27002 - Formerly ISO 17799 (continued) Physical and environmental security Communications and operations management Access control Information systems acquisition, development, and maintenance Information security incident management Business continuity management Compliance

48. Chapter Summary • Identify the standards involved in establishing an interoperable Internet PKI. • Explain interoperability issues with PKI standards. • Describe how the common Internet protocols implement the PKI standards.