doc.: Linksec CipherSuites Submission August David Johnston, IntelSlide 1 LinkSec CipherSuites? David Johnston

doc.: Linksec CipherSuites Submission August David Johnston, IntelSlide 2 Cryptographic Suites The need to choose a set of cryptographic methods in LinkSec has been discussed Privacy, data origin integrity and replay detection are suitable things to address –Are there other things? Ciphersuite will be subject to negotiation What ciphersuites should be specified?

doc.: Linksec CipherSuites Submission August David Johnston, IntelSlide 3 Basic Primitives Null, RC4, DES, 3DES, AES, HMAC-SHA1 etc Impacts: –HW Implementations –Crypto strength –Exportability –Interoperability AES is crypto du jour NULL is probably necessary RC4-40 has been used for exportability before but is not a good choice for engineering reasons –it has a heavily serial algorithm

doc.: Linksec CipherSuites Submission August David Johnston, IntelSlide 4 Privacy FIPS standards specifies crypto modes using DES, 3DES and AES-128 –Not a bad place to take guidance –Simpler FIPS related approvability for devices –DES deprecated for new equipment –Unencumbered, parallelizable modes available (E.G. CTR) Good for speed

doc.: Linksec CipherSuites Submission August David Johnston, IntelSlide 5 Integrity Auth mode based on block crypto function is a nice approach for implementers. FIPS is less useful here –Authentication modes still a matter of debate in NIST –OMAC is looking like the most likely candidate for FIPS approval Not parallelizable Other parallelizable options are encumbered –E.G. PMAC Could use an auth specific algorithm –HMAC-SHA1 Works Requires independent hardware

doc.: Linksec CipherSuites Submission August David Johnston, IntelSlide 6 Combo Modes? There are combined confidentiality modes that use a single block cipher –CCM Not parallelizable Non encumbered Used in i –OCB Parallelizable –Addresses the needs of really high speed equipment Encumbered –Must be optional if it is specified at all Bigger –Needs AES decrypt => more gates These are the engineers choices –One cipher block implementation –AES a known quantity

doc.: Linksec CipherSuites Submission August David Johnston, IntelSlide 7 Frame Format Requirements Crypto has an impact on the frame format –Insertion of IVs –Appending MACs What should this stuff be bound to? –It seems a ciphersuite would be appropriate Might some of this be parametizable? –IV length? Key Length? MIC length? –This would then inform a frame formatter how to behave, redefine MTU etc. Alternative is to only permit defined ciphersuites –My preferred option, parameters sound like too much complexity

doc.: Linksec CipherSuites Submission August David Johnston, IntelSlide 8 The need for ciphersuites Privacy and Integrity methods interact Different mixes impact the frame format differently A Ciphersuites list gives a list of permitted combinations or instances of combo modes –Frame format effects tied to the ciphersuite entry –Easier to negotiate cipher suites than combinations of privacy and integrity algorithms

doc.: Linksec CipherSuites Submission August David Johnston, IntelSlide 9 E.G. Null Auth only – HMAC-SHA256 –I don’t like this Non secure (40 bit) mode –Why bother? NULL is insecure, an illusion of security is worse than none at all. AES-128 in CCM mode –Keylength = 128 bit –Frame expansion = ?? –Great for wireless devices AES-128 in OCB mode –Keylength = 128 –Frame expansion = ?? –Great for very high speed devices –But is encumbered – Pay your $$

doc.: Linksec CipherSuites Submission August David Johnston, IntelSlide 10 A Suggested Ciphersuite Ciphersuite IDTypeM/ODefined in 0NULLMandatoryx.y.z 100AES-128 in CCM Mode Optionalx.y.z Reserved 200AES-128 in OCB Mode Optionalx.y.z Reserved Groupings to allow new ciphersuites to be defined in a cipher type group. E.G 101 = AES-256 in CCM should it become necessary : Insecure modes : Default modes : High speed modes where necessary 802 groups (E.G. EPON) could mandate a cipher type. Linksec leaves the options open an gives informative guidance on appropriate use.

doc.: Linksec CipherSuites Submission August David Johnston, IntelSlide 11 There are other ciphersuites That was the data confidentiality ciphersuite Also will need others –Port authentication ciphersuite –Key exchange ciphersuite These are the domain of another PAR

doc.: Linksec CipherSuites Submission August David Johnston, IntelSlide 12 Backup info – AES Modes Speed Fast AES block => 11 clocks per AES –For CCM mode => 2 AES per 128 bits –1Mhz => (128*(10^6))/2*11 bps => 5.8 Mbps –50MHz easy in 1.3u AES-CCM good for 250Mbps serial data OCB allows parallelization and has fewer AES invocations –1MHz => Mbps –Multi gigabit devices can be addressed –Less feed forward => Pipelining easier => 200Mhz+ straightforward