Cryptography and Network
Security
Fourth Edition
by William Stallings
Lecture slides by Lawrie Brown
Changed by: Somesh Jha
[Lecture 1]
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Introduction
The art of war teaches us to rely not on
the likelihood of the enemy's not coming,
but on our own readiness to receive him;
not on the chance of his not attacking,
but rather on the fact that we have
made our position unassailable.
The Art of War, Sun Tzu
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Background
Information Security requirements have
changed in recent times
traditionally provided by physical and
administrative mechanisms
computer use requires automated tools to
protect files and other stored information
use of networks and communications links
requires measures to protect data during
transmission
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Definitions
Computer Security - generic name for
the collection of tools designed to
protect data and to thwart hackers
Network Security - measures to protect
data during their transmission
Internet Security - measures to protect
data during their transmission over a
collection of interconnected networks
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Aim of Course
our focus is on Internet Security
consists of measures to deter, prevent,
detect, and correct security violations
that involve the transmission of
information
Services, Mechanisms,
Attacks
need systematic way to define
requirements
consider three aspects of information
security:
security attack
security mechanism
security service
consider in reverse order
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Security Service
is something that enhances the security of
the data-processing systems and the
information transfers of an organization
intended to counter security attacks
make use of one or more security
mechanisms to provide the service
replicate functions normally associated with
physical documents
e.g. have signatures, dates; need protection
from disclosure, tampering, or destruction; be
notarized or witnessed; be recorded or licensed
Security Mechanism
a mechanism that is designed to detect,
prevent, or recover from a security attack
no single mechanism that will support all
functions required
however one particular element underlies
many of the security mechanisms in use:
cryptographic techniques
hence our focus on this area
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Security Attack
any action that compromises the security
of information owned by an organization
information security is about how to
prevent attacks, or failing that, to detect
attacks on information-based systems
have a wide range of attacks
can focus of generic types of attacks
note: often threat & attack mean same
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OSI Security Architecture
ITU-T X.800 Security Architecture for
OSI
defines a systematic way of defining
and providing security requirements
for us it provides a useful, if abstract,
overview of concepts we will study
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Security Services
X.800 defines it as: a service provided by
a protocol layer of communicating open
systems, which ensures adequate security
of the systems or of data transfers
RFC 2828 defines it as: a processing or
communication service provided by a
system to give a specific kind of
protection to system resources
X.800 defines it in 5 major categories
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Security Services (X.800)
Authentication - assurance that the
communicating entity is the one claimed
Access Control - prevention of the
unauthorized use of a resource
Data Confidentiality protection of data from
unauthorized disclosure
Data Integrity - assurance that data
received is as sent by an authorized entity
Non-Repudiation - protection against denial
by one of the parties in a communication
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Security Mechanisms (X.800)
specific security mechanisms:
encipherment, digital signatures, access
controls, data integrity, authentication
exchange, traffic padding, routing control,
notarization
pervasive security mechanisms:
trusted functionality, security labels, event
detection, security audit trails, security
recovery
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Classify Security Attacks as
passive attacks - eavesdropping on, or
monitoring of, transmissions to:
obtain message contents, or
monitor traffic flows
active attacks modification of data stream
to:
masquerade of one entity as some other
replay previous messages
modify messages in transit
denial of service
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Model for Network Security
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Model for Network Security
using this model requires us to:
design a suitable algorithm for the security
transformation
generate the secret information (keys)
used by the algorithm
develop methods to distribute and share
the secret information
specify a protocol enabling the principals to
use the transformation and secret
information for a security service
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Model for Network Access
Security
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Model for Network Access
Security
using this model requires us to:
select appropriate gatekeeper functions to
identify users
implement security controls to ensure only
authorised users access designated
information or resources
trusted computer systems can be used
to implement this model
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Summary
have considered:
computer, network, internet security defs
security services, mechanisms, attacks
X.800 standard
models for network (access) security
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Class website
All communication will be through the
class webpage and email
list
Will send by email
Browse the class webpage often
Weekly summaries will be posted there
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Required Text
William Stallings, Cryptography and
Network Security: Principles and
Practice, Prentice Hall, Third edition,
2003.
Other recommended text on the class
webpage
A.J. Menzes, P.C. Van Oorschot, S.A.
Vanstone, Handbook of Applied
Cryptography, CRC Press, 2000.
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Class structure
Homeworks (35%)
Exams (40%)
One midterm
One final
Project (25%)
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Lectures
Cryptographic primitives
11 lectures
Protocols and system security
11 lectures
Advanced topics
6 lectures
Ethics, copyright protection, database
security, elliptic curve cryptography,
threshold cryptography
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