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# 2022-11-25 Week 2 Notes


> From the Text: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15csrrLC72dgFdCTxQ4FQBhHtRFDbLzkU/view?usp=sharing
## Notes
- Announce Forum Poll
- On lectures: lectures aren't the best learning vector for anyone, but with a little effort we can make them worse. A couple great ways to reduce the effectiveness of lectures:
    - Woody Allen said ninety percent of life is just showing up, so come to every lecture, but don't interact with the lecture at all. Don't ask questions during the lecture. Certainly don't come to the lecture with prepared thoughts and questions from the reading. Multitask, but let the lecture occasionally puncture the wall of your attention, distracting you *just long enough* to break your focus on from your other tasks.
    - If you did prepare for the lecture by reading or doing the exercises, wait until the lecture to ask any and all questions. Don't talk to your study group about them, questions have **secret mystical alpha** that can only be released on Fridays.
    - 80:20 your learning by reading the book during the lecture. Maximize your sensory inputs with cryptography-related content in the weekly hour-long burst, like a HIIT exercise session.
    - And under no circumstances should you go out of your way to answer others' questions in the Discord, much less make an effort to build a well-maintained exercise repo, or write short blog posts about problems you found interesting or challenging, and how you solved them. Peers and potential employers are known to hate reading.


## Exercises
### Chapter 3 (p. 61)
1. How much space would be required to store a table for an entire idealized block cipher that operates on 64-bit blocks and has 80-bit keys?

5. Suppose you have a processor that can perform a single DES encryption or decryption operation in $2^{-26}$  seconds. Suppose you also have a large number of plaintext-ciphertext pairs for $DES$ under a single unknown key. How many hours would it take, on average, to find that $DES$ key, using an exhaustive search approach and a single processor? How many hours would it take, with a collection of $2^{14}$ processors?

6. Consider a new block cipher, *DES2*, that consists only of two rounds of the *DES* block cipher. *DES2* has the same block and key size as *DES*. For this question you should consider the *DES* $F$ function as a black box that takes two inputs, a 32-bit data segment and a 48-bit round key, and that produces a 32-bit output. Suppose you have a large number of plaintext-ciphertext pairs for *DES2* under a single, unknown key. Given an algorithm for recovering the 48-bit round key for round 1 and the 48-bit round key for round 2. Your algorithm should require fewer operations than an exhaustive search for an entire 56-bit *DES* key. Can your algorithm be converted into a distinguishable attack against *DES2*?

8. Familiarize yourself with a cryptographic CLI tools. A popular open source package is [*OpenSSL*](https://docs.rs/openssl/latest/openssl/aes/index.html).

Using an existing cryptographic library, decrypt the following ciphertext (in hex)
```hex
	53 9B 33 3B 39 70 6D 14 90 28 CF E1 D9 D4 A4 07
```

with the following 256-bit key (also in hex)

```hex
	80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
	00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01
```

using *AES*. 

9. Using an existing cryptography library, encrypt the following plaintext (in hex)

```hex
	29 6C 93 FD F4 99 AA EB 41 94 BA BC 2E 63 56 1D
```

with the following 256-bit key (also in hex)

```hex
	80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
	00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01
```
using *AES*. Then re-encrypt and decrypt it using a 3072-bit RSA key with GnuPG, or your choice of asymmetric crypto CLI. 

10. Write a program that experimentally demonstrates the complementation property for DES. This program should take as input a key $K$ and a plaintext $P$ and demonstrate that the DES complementation property holds for this key and plaintext. You may use an existing cryptography library for this exercise.

### Chapter 4 (p. 107)
1. Let $P$ be a plaintext and let $\ell(P)$ be the length of $P$ in bytes. Let $b$ be the block size of the block cipher in bytes. Explain why the following is not a good padding scheme: 
    - Determine the minimum number of padding bytes necessary in order to pad the plaintext to a block boundary. This is a number $n$ which satisfies $0 ≤ n ≤ b − 1$ and $n + l(P)$ is a multiple of $b$. Pad the plaintext by appending $n$ bytes, each with value $n$.

3. Suppose you, as an attacker, observe the following 32-byte ciphertext $C$ (in hex)
```hex
46 64 DC 06 97 BB FE 69 33 07 15 07 9B A6 C2 3D
2B 84 DE 4F 90 8D 7D 34 AA CE 96 8B 64 F3 DF 75
```
and the following 32-byte ciphertext $C'$ (also in hex)
```hex
51 7E CC 05 C3 BD EA 3B 33 57 0E 1B D8 97 D5 30
7B D0 91 6B 8D 82 6B 35 B7 8B BB 8D 74 E2 C7 3B.
```
Suppose you know these ciphertexts were generated using CTR mode with the same nonce. The nonce is implicit, so it is not included in the ciphertext. You also know that the plaintext $P$ corresponding to $C$ is
```hex
43 72 79 70 74 6F 67 72 61 70 68 79 20 43 72 79
70 74 6F 67 72 61 70 68 79 20 43 72 79 70 74 6F.
```
What information, if any, can you infer about the plaintext $P$ corresponding
to $C'$?

4. The ciphertext (in hex)

```hex
87 F3 48 FF 79 B8 11 AF 38 57 D6 71 8E 5F 0F 91
7C 3D 26 F7 73 77 63 5A 5E 43 E9 B5 CC 5D 05 92
6E 26 FF C5 22 0D C7 D4 05 F1 70 86 70 E6 E0 17
```
was generated with the 256-bit AES key (also in hex)
```hex
80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01
```
using CBC mode with a random IV. The IV is included at the beginning of the ciphertext. Decrypt this ciphertext. You may use an existing cryptography library for this exercise.

6. Let $P_1$, $P_2$ be a message that is two blocks long, and let $P'_1$ be a message that is one block long. Let $C_0, C_1, C_2$ be the encryption of $P_1, P_2$ using CBC mode with a random IV and a random key, and let $C'_0, C'_1$ be the encryption of $P'_1$ using CBC mode with a random IV and the same key. Suppose an attacker knows $P_1, P_2$ and suppose the attacker intercepted and thus know $C_0, C_1, C_2$ and $C_0, C_1$. Further suppose that, by random chance, $C_1 = C_2$. Show that the attacker can compute $P'_1$.

- Implement a pair of functions: A [PKCS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKCS_7) message padding function, and a padding validation function that takes a message and validates whether it has a correct padding.


### Extra Reading: 
Concurrently to *New Directions in Cryptography*, IBM published what would become the Data Encryption Standard in 1975, which would become standardized three years later in 1978. IBM originally targeted 64 bits of security, but the NSA offered to disclose vulnerabilities in the algorithm to IBM, in exchange for a lower bit security, 48 bits, so that the NSA would have an easier time breaking encryption by brute force. IBM and the NSA agreed on a midway, 56 bit security, and the NSA patched vulnerabilities in the DES algorithm. The precise contributions of the NSA were kept private, in part to maintain the secrecy of differential cryptanalysis techniques. However, the existence of the collaboration was publicly known and heavily scrutinized by cryptographers, including Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, who argued for the necessity of a 128-bit key.
    - Copy A: https://web.archive.org/web/20140226205104/http://origin-www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/1977/06/01646525.pdf
    - Copy B: https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/27.pdf