Paper 2016/433
Analysis of Key Wrapping APIs: Generic Policies, Computational Security
Guillaume Scerri and Ryan Stanley-Oakes
Abstract
We present an analysis of key wrapping APIs with generic policies. We prove that certain minimal conditions on policies are sufficient for keys to be indistinguishable from random in any execution of an API. Our result captures a large class of API policies, including both the hierarchies on keys that are common in the scientific literature and the non-linear dependencies on keys used in PKCS#11. Indeed, we use our result to propose a secure refinement of PKCS#11, assuming that the attributes of keys are transmitted as authenticated associated data when wrapping and that there is an enforced separation between keys used for wrapping and keys used for other cryptographic purposes. We use the Computationally Complete Symbolic Attacker developed by Bana and Comon. This model enables us to obtain computational guarantees using a simple proof with a high degree of modularity.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Major revision. CSF 2016
- Keywords
- key managementkey wrappingcryptographic APIssecret-key cryptographysmart cards
- Contact author(s)
- ryan stanley @ bristol ac uk
- History
- 2016-05-12: last of 2 revisions
- 2016-05-02: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2016/433
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/433,
author = {Guillaume Scerri and Ryan Stanley-Oakes},
title = {Analysis of Key Wrapping {APIs}: Generic Policies, Computational Security},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2016/433},
year = {2016},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/433}
}
