Cargo Cult Security 2014_01_18

Cargo Cult Security

https://github.com/disaacson/cargo-cult-security

by Derrick Isaacson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

Richard Feynman

Cargo Cult Programming

Ritualistic inclusion of code or patterns that are unnecessary for the task at hand.

• Design patterns• Factory• Wrapper

• Dependency injection• Cryptography• Encryption• Hashing

The Big Picture

Crypto Primitives & Goals

Hash MACHMAC

Symmetric Key

Crypto

Asymmetric Key

Crypto

Digital Signature

Digital Certificate

s

Data Integrity

Data Authentication

Non-repudiation

Confidentiality

Trust

Anti-pattern: Authentication

$plainTextId = '100000';

echo '<h4>"Secure" URL for image ' . $plainTextId . '.</h4>';

$cryptTextId = bin2hex(mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_BLOWFISH, $key, $plainTextId, MCRYPT_MODE_OFB, $initializationVector));

$secretImageUrl = "…?secure_id=". $cryptTextId;

echo '<a href="'. $secretImageUrl .'">'.$secretImageUrl.'</a>';

private_image.php?secure_id=573146feb41e

$cryptTextId = $_GET["secure_id"];

$plainTextId = rtrim(mcrypt_decrypt(MCRYPT_BLOWFISH, $key,hex2bin($cryptTextId), MCRYPT_MODE_OFB,

$initializationVector));

$imageData = file_get_contents("img/". $plainTextId);echo '<img src="data:image/png;base64,‘

. base64_encode($imageData).'">‘;

573146feb41e

100000

Team Photo

private_image.php?secure_id=573146feb41e

$cryptTextId = $_GET["secure_id"];

$plainTextId = rtrim(mcrypt_decrypt(MCRYPT_BLOWFISH, $key,hex2bin($cryptTextId), MCRYPT_MODE_OFB,

$initializationVector));

$imageData = file_get_contents("img/" . $plainTextId);echo '<img src="data:image/png;base64,‘

. base64_encode($imageData).'">‘;

573146feb41f

100001

attack plan

private_image.php?secure_id=573146feb41f

Crypto Primitives & Goals

Hash MACHMAC

Symmetric Key

Crypto

Asymmetric Key

Crypto

Digital Signature

Digital Certificate

s

Data Integrity

Data Authentication

Non-repudiation

Confidentiality

Trust

Anti-pattern: Integrity

$aes = mcrypt_module_open(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128, '', MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, '');…

return mcrypt_generic($aes, $data);

$cipher [45] = chr(ord($cipher [45]) ^ ord(".") ^ ord ("0"));

$aes = mcrypt_module_open(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128, '', MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, '');…

return mdecrypt_generic($aes, $data);

Crypto Primitives & Goals

Hash MACHMAC

Symmetric Key

Crypto

Asymmetric Key

Crypto

Digital Signature

Digital Certificate

s

Data Integrity

Data Authentication

Non-repudiation

Confidentiality

Trust

HMAC$plainTextId = '100000';$hmac = hash_hmac("sha256", $key, $plainTextId);$secretImageUrl = "…?id=". $plainTextId . "&hmac=" . $hmac;

echo '<a href="'. $secretImageUrl .'">' . $secretImageUrl . '</a>';

$plainTextId = $_GET["id"];$signature = $_GET["hmac"];$hmac = hash_hmac("sha256", $key, $plainTextId);if ($hmac == $signature) { $imageData = file_get_contents("img/" . $plainTextId . ".jpg"); echo '<img src="data:image/png;base64,'. base64_encode($imageData)

.'">'; }else { echo '<h4 class="error">Permission Denied!</h4>';}

Permission Denied!

Crypto Primitives & Goals

Hash MACHMAC

Symmetric Key

Crypto

Asymmetric Key

Crypto

Digital Signature

Digital Certificate

s

Data Integrity

Data Authentication

Non-repudiation

Confidentiality

Trust

Encryption Parameters

Creates cipher textCipher (AES, Blowfish, …) Secret keyData to encryptCBC, ECB, OFB, …Initialization Vector

mcrypt_encrypt( MCRYPT_BLOWFISH, $key, $plainText, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, $iv);

Anti-pattern: Encryption Modes

$plainImageData = file_get_contents($file);

$cryptText = mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_BLOWFISH, $key, $plainImageData, MCRYPT_MODE_ECB, $initializationVector);

file_put_contents($file . ".encrypted.data", $cryptText);

Cipher-block Chaining Mode

$plainImageData = file_get_contents($file);

$cryptText = mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_BLOWFISH, $key, $plainImageData, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, $initializationVector);

file_put_contents($file . ".encrypted.data", $cryptText);

Encryption Parameters

Creates cipher textCipher (AES, Blowfish, …) Secret keyData to encryptCBC, ECB, OFB, …Initialization Vector

mcrypt_encrypt( MCRYPT_BLOWFISH, $key, $plainText, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, $iv);

Anti-pattern: Initialization Vector

$plainText = “Hold";

$cryptText = mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_BLOWFISH, $key, $plainText, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, md5($key));

• Monday: “a8b8f95c46”• Tuesday: “a8b8f95c46”• Wednesday: “a8b8f95c46”• Thursday: “a8b8f95c46”• Friday: “10f32c937a1284db”

Modes and IVs

• Cipher-block chaining prevents patterns within messages• Correct IV prevents patterns across

messages

Generating Keys & Initialization Vectors

$key = “koicy37m8ao2nl07";$iv = rand();$cypherText = mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128, $key, $plainText, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, $iv);

• How many bits of key entropy can be contained in 16 alphanumeric characters?• 96 bits!• ~0.00000002% of possible search space

• What initialization vector is really used here?• “\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0”!• PHP Warning: mcrypt_decrypt(): The IV parameter must be as long

as the blocksize in /home/derrick/…/CBC.php on line 27• Use

• $size = mcrypt_get_iv_size(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128,

MCRYPT_MODE_CBC);• mcrypt_create_iv($size);

Anti-pattern: Random Values<form action=""> <label>Donation amount</label> <input type="text" value="10.00"> <?php $csrfToken = rand(); setCookie("csrfToken", $csrfToken); echo "<input type=\"hidden\" value=\"$csrfToken\">“; ?> <input type="submit" value="Submit"></form>

Finding Linear Congruential Seed

Random random = new Random();long v1 = random.nextInt();long v2 = random.nextInt();for (int i = 0; i < 65536; i++) { long seed = v1 * 65536 + i; if (((seed * multiplier + addend) & mask) >>> 16) == v2) { System.out.println("Seed found: " + seed); break; }}

Anti-pattern: Psuedo-random Session IDs

<?php $uid = "12345678"; $sessionId = md5($uid . rand() . microtime()); setCookie(“session_id", $sessionId);?>

Really only ~20 bits of entropy.A modern GPU can calculate that in a second!9,12

HMACs and Secure Random

<form action=""> <label>Donation amount</label> <input type="text" value="10.00"> <?php $csrfToken = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(32); setCookie("csrfToken", bin2hex($csrfToken)); echo "<input type=\"hidden\" value=\"$csrfToken\">“; ?> <input type="submit" value="Submit"></form>

Do not use sessions! Use HMACs!Seriously.

No Cargo Cult Security!

1. Identify true security goal.2. Find correct crypto primitive.3. Spend some time to learn about it.4. Write as little of your own crypto code

as possible.

Crypto Primitives & Goals

Hash MACHMAC

Symmetric Key

Crypto

Asymmetric Key

Crypto

Digital Signature

Digital Certificate

s

Data Integrity

Data Authentication

Non-repudiation

Confidentiality

Trust

https://oracleus.activeevents.com/2013/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=6325

Crypto Primitives & Goals

Hash MACHMAC

Symmetric Key

Crypto

Asymmetric Key

Crypto

Digital Signature

Digital Certificate

s

Data Integrity

Data Authentication

Non-repudiation

Confidentiality

Trust

Questions?

derrick@lucidchart.com

https://github.com/disaacson/cargo-cult-security

References

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

2. http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming

5. https://oracleus.activeevents.com/2013/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=6325

6. http://www.scs.stanford.edu/10au-cs144/notes/

7. http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/cbc-byte-flipping-attack-101-approach/

8. http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18033/how-insecure-are-phps-rand-functions

9. http://crypto.di.uoa.gr/CRYPTO.SEC/Randomness_Attacks_files/paper.pdf

10. http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/17988/how-insecure-are-non-cryptographic-random-number-generators

11. http://jazzy.id.au/default/2010/09/20/cracking_random_number_generators_part_1.html

12. http://thepasswordproject.com/oclhashcat_benchmarking

13. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.openssl-random-pseudo-bytes.php

14. https://github.com/disaacson/cargo-cult-security