Security Analysis of SFrame

Takanori Isobe; Ryoma Ito; Kazuhiko Minematsu

Paper 2021/424

Security Analysis of SFrame

Takanori Isobe, Ryoma Ito, and Kazuhiko Minematsu

Abstract

As people become more and more privacy conscious, the need for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) has become widely recognized. We study herein the security of SFrame, an E2EE mechanism recently proposed to the Internet Engineering Task Force for video/audio group communications over the Internet. Despite being a quite recent project, SFrame is going to be adopted by a number of real-world applications. We inspect the original specification of SFrame and find critical issues that will lead to impersonation (forgery) attacks with a practical complexity by a malicious group member. We also investigate the several publicly available SFrame implementations and confirm that this issue is present in these implementations.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Cryptographic protocols
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Major revision. ESORICS 2021
Contact author(s): takanori isobe @ ai u-hyogo ac jp
itorym @ nict go jp
k-minematsu @ nec com
History: 2022-04-26: last of 2 revisions; 2021-04-06: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2021/424
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/424,
      author = {Takanori Isobe and Ryoma Ito and Kazuhiko Minematsu},
      title = {Security Analysis of SFrame},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2021/424},
      year = {2021},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/424}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/424}
}