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Key management and distribution
1.
2. What is key management?
Key management is the set of techniques and procedures
supporting the establishment and maintenance of keying
relationships between authorized parties.
A keying relationship is the state wherein communicating
entities share common data(keying material) to facilitate
cryptography techniques. This data may include public or
secret keys, initialization values, and additional non-secret
parameters.
3. Key management encompasses techniques and
procedures supporting:
1. initialization of systems users within a domain;
2. generation, distribution, and installation of keying
material;
3. controlling the use of keying material;
4. update, revocation, and destruction of keying material;
and
5. storage, backup/recovery, and archival of keying
material.
4. Objectives
The objective of key management is to maintain
keying relationships and keying material in a
manner that counters relevant threats
In practice an additional objective is conformance to
a relevant security policy
5. Threats
1. compromise of confidentiality of secret keys
2. compromise of authenticity of secret or public keys.
3. unauthorized use of public or secret keys
6. Security Policy
Security policy explicitly or implicitly defines the
threats a system is intended to address
Security policy may affect the stringency of
cryptographic requirements, depending on the
susceptibility of the environment in questions to
various types of attack.
7. Key management techniques
Public-key techniques
Primary advantages offered by public-key techniques for
applications related to key management include:
1. simplified key management
2. on-line trusted server not required
3. enhanced functionality
9. Key management techniques
b) public-key encryption
encryption decryption
asymmetric key pair
generation
plaintext ciphertext
plaintext
public
key
private key
secure channel (private and
authentication)
secure channel (authentication only)
unsecured channel (no protection)
10. Key management techniques
Techniques for distributing confidential keys
Key layering and symmetric-key certificates
Key layering:
1. master keys – keys at the highest level in the hierarchy
2. key-encrypting keys – symmetric keys or encryption public
keys used for key transport or storage of other keys
3. data keys – used to provide cryptographic operations on user
data
11. Key management techniques
symmetric-key certificates:
Symmetric-key certificates provide a means for a KTC(Key Translation
Center) to avoid the requirement of either maintaining a secure
database of user secrets (or duplicating such a database for multiple
servers), or retrieving such keys from a database upon translation
requests.
12. Key management life cycle
1. user registration
2. user initialization
3. key generation
4. key installation
5. key registration
6. normal use
7. key backup
8. key update
9. archival
10. key de-registration and destruction
11. key recovery
12. key revocation
13. Key Distribution
given parties A and B have various key distribution
alternatives:
1. A can select key and physically deliver to B
2. third party can select & deliver key to A & B
3. if A & B have communicated previously can use
previous key to encrypt a new key
4. if A & B have secure communications with a third
party C, C can relay key between A & B
16. Key Distribution Issues
hierarchies of KDC’s required for large networks, but
must trust each other
session key lifetimes should be limited for greater
security
use of automatic key distribution on behalf of users,
but must trust system
use of decentralized key distribution
controlling key usage
17. Simple Secret Key Distribution
Merkle proposed this very simple scheme
allows secure communications
no keys before/after exist
19. Distribution of Public Keys
can be considered as using one of:
public announcement
publicly available directory
public-key authority
public-key certificates
20. Public Announcement
users distribute public keys to recipients or broadcast
to community at large
eg. append PGP keys to email messages or post to news
groups or email list
major weakness is forgery
anyone can create a key claiming to be someone else and
broadcast it
until forgery is discovered can masquerade as claimed
user
21. Publicly Available Directory
can obtain greater security by registering keys with a
public directory
directory must be trusted with properties:
contains {name,public-key} entries
participants register securely with directory
participants can replace key at any time
directory is periodically published
directory can be accessed electronically
still vulnerable to tampering or forgery
22. Public-Key Authority improve security by tightening control over
distribution of keys from directory
has properties of directory
and requires users to know public key for the directory
then users interact with directory to obtain any desired
public key securely
does require real-time access to directory when keys are
needed
may be vulnerable to tampering
24. Public-Key Certificates
certificates allow key exchange without real-time
access to public-key authority
a certificate binds identity to public key
usually with other info such as period of validity, rights
of use etc
with all contents signed by a trusted Public-Key or
Certificate Authority (CA)
can be verified by anyone who knows the public-key
authorities public-key