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Secure Protocols and VPNs
Stefek Zaba
Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol
[email protected]
What we’ll cover
• This lecture:
– network layering revision
– “secure channel” concept
– substantial example: IPSec
• Next lecture:
– substantial example 1: TLS/SSL
– substantial example 2: SSH
– summaries and random rants
Network layers
• You heard this in Lecture 1!
• Simplified Internet model:
application
transport
network
link
Link layer: carries IP (and others, e.g.
Appletalk, NetBUI, IPX, ARP, ...): hop-byhop LAN.
Examples: IEEE802.3, PPP, RF LAN
Virtual-circuit-ID, …
srcIP, destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
IP header’
srcIP, destIP,
TTL-n, pktID, …
len
IP header
port, seqnum,
SYN, ACK, FIN, …
TCP header
port, seqnum,
SYN, ACK, FIN, …
TCP header
port, seqnum,
SYN, ACK, FIN, …
len
X.25 header
len
ether-addr, checksum, …
TCP header
application data
len
Network (IP) layer: “is” Internet. Carries:
TCP, UDP, ICMP (“ping”, router control), …
Ethernet header
len
Transport layer: TCP - reliable connections
(sequence nums, retransmission), carries
HTTP, FTP, Telnet, …; UDP – unreliable
datagrams, e.g. streaming audio/video
srcIP, destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
len
IP header
len
port, seqnum,
SYN, ACK, FIN, …
application data
len
TCP header
Application layer: lots of protocols, e.g.
HTTP carrying Web traffic, SMTP carrying
email, NNTP carrying News, …
application data
len
Network layers
application data
Where shall we “put security”?
• Link level:
covers all traffic on that link, e.g. RF
only one hop
• Network (IP) level:
covers “all” traffic, end-to-end
transparent to applications
little application control
“unnatural”, since IP is stateless packets but
channel is stateful
Where shall we “put security”?
• Transport (TCP) level:
end-to-end
apps can control when it’s used
apps must be modified (unless proxied)
• Application level:
can be tuned to payload requirements
no “leverage” - must rework for every app
What “security” are we
providing?
• A “secure channel”, typically offering
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Origin authentication (but of what: OS? App? User?)
Integrity
Confidentiality
…
• Not:
– Non-repudiation
– Any services once data received
Crypto primitives used
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Symmetric ciphers
Asymmetric ciphers & signatures
(Keyed) hash functions
(Keyed) pseudo-random functions
Key agreement protocols: mainly DH
Typical goals
• At least one party authenticated
• Shared secret established
• MAC & bulk cipher keys derived from
shared secret
• Further traffic “protected”
• Optional: session re-use, rekeying, …
IPSec: overview
• Network-level: all IP datagrams covered
• Mandatory for next-generation IP (v6),
optional for current-generation (v4)
• Authentication-only or confidentiality too
• Two “modes”
– “transport” mode: for IPSec-aware hosts as
endpoints
– “tunnel” mode: for IPSec-unaware hosts,
established by intermediate gateways or host OS
References: RFC2401..2412; FreeSWAN
Authentication: AH
• Authenticates whole payload and most
of header
– vitally, covers source IP address
– omits only fields modified in transit
• e.g. TTL/hop-limit, fragmentation fields, some
options
Encryption + auth: ESP
• Encrypts and optionally authenticates
payload, but not IP header
• Combine with AH for “full” conf+auth
• Use alone for payload conf+auth
• There are both engineering and political
reasons for their separate existence!
AH
SPI, seqnum,
MAC, …
port, seqnum,
SYN, ACK, FIN, …
TCP header
len
srcIP, destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
TCP header
application data
len
IP header
len
srcIP, destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
application data
len
IP header
len
AH & ESP, Tunnel & Transport
application data
Original unprotected
datagram
AH in transport mode
IP header
srcIP, destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
len
MAC scope
ESP
header:
SPI,seqnum
TCP header
ESP
trailer: pad,
padlen, …
ESP
auth: MAC
ESP (conf and auth)
in transport mode
MAC scope
TCP header
len
ESP
header:
SPI, seqnum
application data
len
srcIP, destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
application data
len
IP header
len
encryption scope
application data
ESP auth-only
in transport mode
ESP
auth: MAC
gw-srcIP, gw-destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
len
Outer IP header
AH
SPI, seqnum,
MAC. …
Inner IP header
host-srcIP, host-destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
len
MAC scope
TCP header
AH in tunnel mode
gw-srcIP, gw-destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
len
Outer IP header
ESP
header:
SPI,seqnum
Inner IP header
host-srcIP, host-destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
len
MAC scope
AH
SPI,seqnum,
MAC, …
TCP header
Inner AH MAC scope
Outer ESP MAC scope
encryption scope
ESP
trailer: pad,
padlen…
ESP
auth: MAC
ESP I(conf and auth) in
tunnel mode
carrying AH in transport mode
Why so many combinations!?
• To support different VPN arrangements,
to meet different security and
deployment-practicality requirements
Simple transport-mode usage:
host-to-host
TCP
len
TCP
app data
len
IP
len
app data
len
TCP
len
IP
len
(no singing, please)
app data
Without transport-mode IPSec
ESP
IP
AH
len
app data
len
TCP
len
ESP
len
AH
len
IP
len
With transport-mode IPSec
ESP
ESP
IP
gw-togw
ESP
len
len
IP
host-tohost
app data
TCP
len
ESP
TCP
len
app data
len
TCP
len
IP
host-tohost
app data
len
IP
host-tohost
len
TCP
len
ESP
len
IP
gw-togw
len
IP
host-tohost
len
Simple tunnel-mode usage:
gateway-to-gateway
app data
ESP
Other combinations for other
requirements
srcIP, destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
AH
SPI, seqnum,
MAC, …
TCP header
len
IP header
len
AH in transport mode
Host-to-host auth-only,
e.g. network management?
application data
srcIP, destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
ESP
header:
SPI,seqnum
TCP header
len
IP header
len
MAC scope
application data
ESP
trailer: pad,
padlen, …
ESP
auth: MAC
MAC scope
srcIP, destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
ESP
header:
SPI, seqnum
TCP header
len
IP header
len
encryption scope
application data
As for AH-transport;
probably worse in all
cases…
ESP
auth: MAC
Inner IP header
host-srcIP, host-destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
TCP header
AH in tunnel mode
len
AH
SPI, seqnum,
MAC. …
len
len
gw-srcIP, gw-destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
Between-gateway VPN with
no overall confidentiality
provision (may be good
performance choice)
application data
ESP
header:
SPI,seqnum
Inner IP header
host-srcIP, host-destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
AH
SPI,seqnum,
MAC, …
TCP header
len
len
gw-srcIP, gw-destIP,
TTL, pktID, …
len
MAC scope
Outer IP header
Host-to-host secure channel,
e.g. encapsulated legacy
apps?
ESP auth-only in transport mode
MAC scope
Outer IP header
ESP (conf and auth) in transport
mode
application data
Inner AH MAC scope
Outer ESP MAC scope
encryption scope
ESP
trailer: pad,
padlen…
ESP
auth: MAC
ESP in tunnel mode
carrying AH in transport mode
Common “road warrior”
VPN: secure channel
across public network, and
strong, continuing
authentication to end
system(s)
But where did the keys come from?
• “SPI” (security parameters index) refers to an
“SA” (security association)
• SAs set up manually or by IKE – IPSec Key
Exchange
• Policy “databases” define how fine- or coarsegrained SAs are
– anything from “all traffic shall use this key” to
individual combinations of source and destination
addresses and ports
– even “user-based” keying supported… but binding a
user to an IP address is (very) problematic…
Outbound processing
• Lookup policy for this datagram
– drop, pass through, or process
• Create a new SA if none exists
• Apply keys from SA for MAC and enciphering
• Add explicit IV for each datagram
– because they can be lost and arrive out-of-order
• Pass assembled datagram down to link layer
– or to next instance of IPSec processing!
– Let’s ignore fragmentation, PMTU discovery, …
Inbound processing
• Lookup policy for this datagram
– drop, pass through, or process
• SA should already exist (we’re the responder)
• Apply keys from SA for MAC-check and
deciphering (using datagram’s IV too)
• Raise security error if needed; otherwise,
• Pass assembled datagram up to rest of
normal IP processing
– or to next instance of IPSec processing!
What can be MAC’ed?
• Immutable or predictable fields and options in IPv4 and IPv6
• AH-controlled all immutable, so MACed:
– payload, payload length, next-header, SPI, sequence number,
reserved fields
• IP header immutables and predictables v6:
– version, payload length, next-header, source and destination IP
addrs,
– BUT NOT: class, flow label, or hop limit (= v4 TTL)
– all v6 extension headers self-describing as to mutability
• IP header immutables and predictables v4:
– version, header and payload lengths, packetID, protocol type,
source and destination IP addrs
– BUT NOT: ToS, flags, fragment offset, TTL, header checksum
• All unpredictable fields zero-filled for MAC calculation
– so overall length and alignment still protected
IPsec Key Exchange – IKE
or, time for a deep breath!
• Documentation hard to follow
– IKE is specific adaptation of more general
protocols (“Oakley” and “ISAKMP”)
• Two levels of SA negotiated
– an initial context (bidirectional, with heavy-duty
authentication and negotiation)
– then several client SAs, negotiated quickly using
initial SA as secure channel; one for each
direction and each AH and ESP
– initial SA also used for error traffic and similar
management traffic
IKE security goals
• Authentication of parties (by digital signature, proof of
knowledge of private key, or shared key)
• Establishment of a fresh shared secret
• Shared secret used to derive keys for channel
confidentiality and authentication
• “Perfect Forward Secrecy”, at cost of using up shared
material
• (partial) anti-clogging, against denial-of-service attacks
• Secure negotiation of algorithms: asymmetric (e.g. RSA,
elliptic curve), symmetric (e.g. 3DES, Blowfish, AES), and
hash (e.g. MD5, SHA-1)
IKE details
• Phase 1 is the heavyweight exchange to
establish a secure key management channel
– “Main mode” variant: slower, more cautious, hides
details of credentials used and allows forward
secrecy (independence of short-term keys)
– “Aggressive mode”: less negotiation, fewer round
trips, more information disclosed
• Phase 2 (“quick mode”) established SAs for
IPSec itself, using the Phase 1 channel
Main Mode IKE Phase 1
using digital signatures
(see RFC2409, p.11)
Initiator
HDR, SA_i
Responder
-->
<--
HDR, SA_r
Headers (HDR) include “cookies” CKY-I and CKY-R respectively. Initiator’s SA has one or more “proposals”, in
preference order, for algorithms to be used for ISAKMP, the key management channel we’re building. The
responder chooses exactly one of these proposals. These SAs may refer to one of a few standard DiffieHellman groups (both integer and ECC), or may define new DH groups.
HDR, KE, Ni
-->
<--
HDR, KE, Nr
Ni, Nr are initiator’s and responder’s nonces, respectively; KE are Diffie-Hellman g^x and g^y values
HDR*{IDii, [CERT,] SIG_I}
-->
<-- HDR*{IDir, [CERT,] SIG_R}
HDR* denotes remaining ISAKMP traffic is encrypted. IDii, IDir are IDentifiers, typically IP addresses.
SIG_I is over HASH_I = prf( SKEYID, g^x | g^y | CKY-I | CKY-R | SA_i | IDii )
SIG_R is over HASH_R = prf(SKEYID, g^y | g^x | CKY-R | CKY-I | SA_i | IDir )
where SKEYID = prf( Ni_b | Nr_b, g^xy ), and prf is the negotiated keyed pseudo-random function
Note 3 round-trips, 4 DH modular exponentiations, 2 signature-generations and 2 signature-verifications
Aggressive Mode IKE Phase 1
using public-key proof
(see RFC2409, p.14)
HDR, SA_i, <Ni>Pubkey_r,
<KE>Ke_i, <IDii>Ke_i
-->
HDR includes CKY-I. SA_i has exactly one “take-it-or-leave-it” proposal. The nonce Ni is encrypted in the
responder’s public key; KE (that’s g^x) and IDII are encrypted under Ke_i = prf( Ni, CKY-I ). So, the responder
can decrypt Ni and so derive Ke_i only if it has the private complement to Pubkey_r.
<--
HDR, SA_r, <Nr>Pubkey_i, <KE>Ke_r,
<IDir>Ke_r, HASH_R
HDR includes CKY-R. SA_r must equal SA_i. Similarly to the initiator’s message, the nonce Nr is encrypted in
the initiator’s public key, while KE (that’s g^y) and IDir are encrypted under KE_r = prf( Nr, CKY-R ), requiring
the initiator to have the private complement of Pubkey_i. HASH_R is as on the previous page.
HDR, HASH_I
-->
The hashes sent in each direction aren’t signed; but the ability to generate them proves receipt and successful
decryption of the nonce received from the other party.
Note 1.5 round-trips only, still 4 DH modular exponentiations, 2 public-key encrypts and 2 public-key decrypts.
Careful analysis shows “plausible deniability”: the absence of digital signatures allows either party to disown the
exchange.
Use of Phase 1 agreed material
Key material for the underlying ISAKMP key-management SA we’re building first is derived from the shared-secret
quantity g^xy and the nonces securely exchanged during Phase 1 as follows:
SKEYID = prf( Ni | Nr, g^xy )
SKEYID_d = prf( SKEYID, g^xy | CKY-I | CKY-R | “0” )
SKEYID_a = prf( SKEYID, SKEYID_d | g^xy | CKY-I | CKY-R | “1” )
SKEYID_e = prf( SKEYID, SKEYID_d | g^xy | CKY-I | CKY-R | “2” )
where _a refers to Authenticator (MAC) material for the ISAKMP channel, and _e is for Encrypting material for the
ISAKMP channel. _d is dual-purpose; firstly, it’s used as input for the _a and _e pseudo-random streams; secondly,
it’s the main source of key material for the Phase 2 SAs which are the ones used by IPSec itself. SKEYID is used
directly as the prf key for HASH_I and HASH_R, used to authenticate the parties.
Particular “transforms” (symmetric encryption algorithms, MACs, and so on) specify exactly how SKEYID_a,
SKEYID_e, and SKEYID_d is to be used. For example, the specification for single-key DES uses at minimum the
first 8 bytes of the PRF, forcing the parity bits to appropriate values, throwing away any bytes which would give rise
to the known weak or semi-weak keys. (There are only 16 out of 2^56 such keys, so this isn’t likely to occur in
practice!) The Triple-DES definition uses at least 24 bytes of the prf output, and the prf definition “stretches” its
initial result by repeated application to produce as many bytes as are needed.
Phase 2: “Quick Mode”
Now that we have an ISAKMP SA to define a secure key-management channel, doing algorithm and key agreement
for client SAs such as AH and ESPis cheap and easy (relatively speaking). As example, this is how you get 4 SAs
(one for each direction of an AH + ESP pair) - see RFC2409 p.19:
HDR*{HASH(1), SA0, SA1, Ni}
-->
As before, HDR*{} means that all further material is encrypted (under SKEYID_e, remember?). SA0, SA1, etc. are
“proposals” for client SAs for the AH and ESP transforms – each one is a preference-ordered list of possible algorithm
combinations. Ni is a new initiator nonce. HASH(1) = prf( SKEYID_a, M-ID | SA0 | SA1 | Ni ); see how SKEYID_a is
the MAC key. M-ID is the unique message-ID from HDR.
<-- HDR*{HASH(2), SA0, SA1, Nr}
Back come single algorithm choices for each SA, and a new responder nonce Nr. HASH(2) is similar to HASH(1):
HASH(2) = prf( SKEYID_a, M-ID | Ni | SA0 | SA1 | Nr ); it has Ni added as a liveness proof.
HDR*{HASH(3}
-->
This is a simple acknowledgement that the responder’s message has been received;
HASH(3) = prf(SKEYID_a, “0” | M-ID | Ni | Nr )
Now key material for each IPSec SA is defined as follows:
KEYMAT = prf( SKEYID_d, protocol | SPI | Ni | Nr )
Since protocol and SPI are unique to AH/ESP and direction respectively, this gives 4 separate chunks of KEYMAT. If
necessary, they are “stretched” as before by applying prf iteratively. Note the single Phase 1 DH exchange and publickey operations have been used to derive key material for all four IPSec SAs, spreading the cost of those expensive
operations. There’s an option to include a fresh DH exchange in each Quick Mode if you prefer Forward Secrecy to
computational efficiency...
Final notes on IPSec
• IKE is carried over UDP; hence unreliable (may need
to be restarted) and blocked by some firewalls
• Managing IPSec policy and deployments isn’t easy,
and getting it wrong can be embarassing in losing
connectivity, e.g. by making exchanges of routing
updates unreadable
• After trying to roll-its-own with PPTP, MS has put
IPSec into WinXP
• See FreeS/WAN for implementation (and contribute
too, unless you’re a US citizen):
http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan/