Paper 2017/161
Security Notions for Bidirectional Channels
Giorgia Azzurra Marson and Bertram Poettering
Abstract
This paper closes a definitional gap in the context of modeling cryptographic two-party channels. We note that, while most security models for channels consider exclusively unidirectional communication, real-world protocols like TLS and SSH are rather used for bidirectional interaction. The motivational question behind this paper is: Can analyses conducted with the unidirectional setting in mind--including the current ones for TLS and SSH--also vouch for security in the case of bidirectional channel usage? And, in the first place, what does security in the bidirectional setting actually mean? After developing confidentiality and integrity notions for bidirectional channels, we analyze a standard way of combining two unidirectional channels to realize one bidirectional channel. Although it turns out that this construction is, in general, not as secure as commonly believed, we confirm that for many practical schemes security is provided also in the bidirectional sense.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- A minor revision of an IACR publication in FSE 2017
- Keywords
- cryptographic channelsbidirectional communicationsecurity modelsTLS
- Contact author(s)
- giorgia marson @ rub de
- History
- 2017-03-30: last of 2 revisions
- 2017-02-23: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2017/161
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2017/161,
author = {Giorgia Azzurra Marson and Bertram Poettering},
title = {Security Notions for Bidirectional Channels},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2017/161},
year = {2017},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/161}
}
