Chapter 6 | Web Security

ITMS- 3153 Information Systems Security

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Web Security
y Web now widely used by business,

government, individuals y But internet & web are vulnerable y Have a variety of threats y Integrity y Confidentiality y Denial of service y Authentication y Need added security mechanisms
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SSL (Secure Socket Layer)

y Transport layer security service y Originally developed by netscape y Version 3 designed with public input y Subsequently became internet standard known as TLS

(transport layer security) y Uses TCP to provide a reliable end-to-end service y SSL has two layers of protocols

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SSL Architecture

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SSL Architecture
y SSL connection
y Network transport y A transient, peer-to-peer, communications link y Associated with 1 SSL session

y SSL session
y An association between client & server y Created by the handshake protocol y Define a set of cryptographic parameters y May be shared by multiple SSL connections

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SSL Record Protocol Services

y Message integrity
y Using a MAC with shared secret key y Similar to HMAC but with different padding

y Confidentiality
y Using symmetric encryption with a shared secret key

defined by handshake protocol y Message is compressed before encryption

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SSL Record Protocol Operation

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SSL Change Cipher Spec Protocol

y One of 3 SSL specific protocols which use the SSL

record protocol y A single message y Causes pending state to become current y Hence updating the cipher suite in use

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SSL Alert Protocol

y Conveys SSL-related alerts to peer entity y Severity
y Warning or fatal

y Specific alert
y Warning: Close notify, no certificate, bad certificate, unsupported

certificate, certificate revoked, certificate expired, certificate unknown y Fatal: Unexpected message, bad record mac, decompression failure, handshake failure, illegal parameter

y Compressed & encrypted like all SSL data

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SSL Handshake Protocol

y Allows server & client to:
y Authenticate each other y To negotiate encryption & MAC algorithms y To negotiate cryptographic keys to be used

y Comprises a series of messages in phases

y y y y

Establish security capabilities Server authentication and key exchange Client authentication and key exchange Finish

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SSL Handshake Protocol

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TLS (Transport Layer Security)

y IETF standard RFC 2246 similar to sslv3 y With minor differences y In record format version number y Uses HMAC for MAC y A pseudo-random function expands secrets y Has additional alert codes y Some changes in supported ciphers y Changes in certificate negotiations y Changes in use of padding

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Secure Electronic Transactions (SET)

Open encryption & security specification To protect internet credit card transactions Developed in 1996 by mastercard, visa etc Not a payment system Rather a set of security protocols & formats y Secure communications amongst parties y Trust from use of X.509v3 certificates y Privacy by restricted info to those who need it

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SET Components

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SET Transaction
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Customer opens account Customer receives a certificate Merchants have their own certificates Customer places an order Merchant is verified Order and payment are sent Merchant requests payment authorization Merchant confirms order Merchant provides goods or service Merchant requests payment

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Dual Signature
y Customer creates dual messages
y Order information (OI) for merchant y Payment information (PI) for bank

y Neither party needs details of other y But must know they are linked y Use a dual signature for this
y Signed concatenated hashes of OI & PI

DS=E(PRc, [H(H(PI)||H(OI))])

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SET Purchase Request

y

SET purchase request exchange consists of four messages 1. Initiate request - get certificates 2. Initiate response - signed response 3. Purchase request - of OI & PI 4. Purchase response - ack order

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Purchase Request Customer

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Purchase Request Merchant

Verifies cardholder certificates using CA sigs. 2. Verifies dual signature using customer's public signature key to ensure order has not been tampered with in transit & that it was signed using cardholder's private signature key. 3. Processes order and forwards the payment information to the payment gateway for authorization. 4. Sends a purchase response to cardholder.
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Purchase Request Merchant

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Payment Gateway Authorization

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Verifies all certificates Decrypts digital envelope of authorization block to obtain symmetric key & then decrypts authorization block Verifies merchant's signature on authorization block Decrypts digital envelope of payment block to obtain symmetric key & then decrypts payment block Verifies dual signature on payment block Verifies that transaction ID received from merchant matches that in PI received (indirectly) from customer Requests & receives an authorization from issuer Sends authorization response back to merchant

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Payment Capture
y Merchant sends payment gateway a payment

capture request y Gateway checks request y Then causes funds to be transferred to merchants account y Notifies merchant using capture response

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Summary
y Have considered:
y Need for web security y SSL/TLS transport layer security protocols y SET secure credit card payment protocols

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References
y William Stallings, Cryptography and Network Security

(Fourth Edition).

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