User authentication
Password authentication, salt
Challenge-response authentication protocols
Biometrics
Token-based authentication
Password authentication
Basic idea
User has a secret password
System checks password to authenticate user
Issues
How is password stored?
How does system check password?
How easy is it to guess a password?
Difficult to keep password file secret, so best if it is hard to
guess password even if you have the password file
Password file
kiwifruit
hash function
exrygbzyf
kgnosfix
ggjoklbsz
Salt
Password line
walt:fURfuu4.4hY0U:129:129:Belgers:/home/walt:/bin/csh
Compare
Input
Salt
Key
Constant,
A 64-bit block of 0
25x DES
Ciphertext
Plaintext
Outline
User authentication
Password authentication, salt
Challenge-response authentication protocols
Biometrics
Token-based authentication
Challenge-response Authentication
Goal: Bob wants Alice to prove her identity to
him
Protocol ap1.0: Alice says I am Alice
I am Alice
Failure scenario??
Authentication
Goal: Bob wants Alice to prove her identity to
him
Protocol ap1.0: Alice says I am Alice
I am Alice
in a network,
Bob can not see
Alice, so Trudy simply
declares
herself to be Alice
Alices
I am Alice
IP address
Failure scenario??
Alices
IP address
Alices
Alices
Im Alice
IP addr password
Alices
IP addr
OK
Failure scenario??
Alices
Alices
Im Alice
IP addr password
Alices
IP addr
OK
Alices
Alices
Im Alice
IP addr password
Alices encrypted
Im Alice
IP addr password
Alices
IP addr
OK
Failure scenario??
Alices encryppted
Im Alice
IP addr password
Alices
IP addr
OK
Alices encrypted
Im Alice
IP addr password
record
and
playback
still works!
Authentication: ap5.0
ap4.0 doesnt protect against server database reading
can we authenticate using public key techniques?
ap5.0: use nonce, public key cryptography
I am Alice
R
K A (R)
Bob computes
+ -
KA(KA (R)) = R
Outline
User authentication
Password authentication, salt
Challenge-response authentication protocols
Biometrics
Token-based authentication
Biometrics
Use a persons physical characteristics
fingerprint, voice, face, keyboard timing,
Advantages
Cannot be disclosed, lost, forgotten
Disadvantages
Cost, installation, maintenance
Reliability of comparison algorithms
False positive: Allow access to unauthorized person
False negative: Disallow access to authorized person
Privacy?
If forged, how do you revoke?
Biometrics
Common uses
Specialized situations, physical security
Combine
Multiple biometrics
Biometric and PIN
Biometric and token
Token-based Authentication
Smart Card
Various forms
PIN protected memory card
Enter PIN to get the password
function
Some complications
Initial data (PIN) shared with server
Need to set this up securely
Shared database for many sites
Clock skew
Time
Outline
User authentication
Password authentication, salt
Challenge-Response
Biometrics
Token-based authentication
LAN
Rules
user name,
password,
other auth
Authentication
Database
Application
Server
Advantages
User signs on once
No need for authentication at multiple sites, applications
Can set central authorization policy for the enterprise
Microsoft Passport
Launched 1999
Claim > 200 million accounts in 2002
Over 3.5 billion authentications each month
Passport log-in
Trusted Intermediaries
Symmetric key problem:
Solution:
trusted key distribution
center (KDC) acting as
intermediary between
entities
Solution:
trusted certification
authority (CA)
KB-KDC
KA-KDC
KX-KDC
KY-KDC
KB-KDC
KZ-KDC
Kerberos
Kerberos 4 Overview
Kerberos Realms
A Kerberos environment consists of:
a Kerberos server
a number of clients, all registered with server
application servers, sharing keys with server
Certification Authorities
Certification authority (CA): binds public key to
particular entity, E.
E (person, router) registers its public key with CA.
E provides proof of identity to CA.
CA creates certificate binding E to its public key.
Certificate containing Es public key digitally signed by CA
CA says this is Es public key
Bobs
public
key
Bobs
identifying
information
KB
digital
signature
(encrypt)
CA
private
key
K-
CA
KB
certificate for
Bobs public key,
signed by CA
Certification Authorities
When Alice wants Bobs public key:
gets Bobs certificate (Bob or elsewhere).
apply CAs public key to Bobs certificate, get Bobs
public key
CA is heart of the X.509 standard used extensively in
SSL (Secure Socket Layer), S/MIME (Secure/Multiple Purpose
Internet Mail Extension), and IP Sec, etc.
+
KB
digital
signature
(decrypt)
CA
public
key
+
K CA
Bobs
public
+
K B key
Single KDC/CA
Problems
Single administration trusted by all principals
Single point of failure
Scalability
KA-KDC(A,B)
Alice
knows
R1
KA-KDC(R1, KB-KDC(A,R1) )
KB-KDC(A,R1)
Bob knows to
use R1 to
communicate
with Alice
Backup Slides
Advantages of salt
Without salt
Same hash functions on all machines
Compute hash of all common strings once
Compare hash file with all known password files
With salt
One password hashed 212 different ways
Precompute hash file?
Need much larger file to cover all common strings
Credential information
Minimum six-character password or PIN
Four-digit security key, used for a second level of
authentication on sites requiring stronger sign-in credentials
Wallet
Passport-based application at passport.com domain
E-commerce sites with Express Purchase function use wallet
information rather than prompt the user to type in data