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diff --git a/doc/spec/proposals/ideas/xxx-what-uses-sha1.txt b/doc/spec/proposals/ideas/xxx-what-uses-sha1.txt deleted file mode 100644 index b3ca3eea5a..0000000000 --- a/doc/spec/proposals/ideas/xxx-what-uses-sha1.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,247 +0,0 @@ -Filename: xxx-what-uses-sha1.txt -Title: Where does Tor use SHA-1 today? -Authors: Nick Mathewson, Marian -Created: 30-Dec-2008 -Status: Meta - - -Introduction: - - Tor uses SHA-1 as a message digest. SHA-1 is showing its age: - theoretical attacks for finding collisions against it get better - every year or two, and it will likely be broken in practice before - too long. - - According to smart crypto people, the SHA-2 functions (SHA-256, etc) - share too much of SHA-1's structure to be very good. RIPEMD-160 is - also based on flawed past hashes. Some people think other hash - functions (e.g. Whirlpool and Tiger) are not as bad; most of these - have not seen enough analysis to be used yet. - - Here is a 2006 paper about hash algorithms. - http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/final-papers/R10.pdf - - (Todo: Ask smart crypto people.) - - By 2012, the NIST SHA-3 competition will be done, and with luck we'll - have something good to switch too. But it's probably a bad idea to - wait until 2012 to figure out _how_ to migrate to a new hash - function, for two reasons: - 1) It's not inconceivable we'll want to migrate in a hurry - some time before then. - 2) It's likely that migrating to a new hash function will - require protocol changes, and it's easiest to make protocol - changes backward compatible if we lay the groundwork in - advance. It would suck to have to break compatibility with - a big hard-to-test "flag day" protocol change. - - This document attempts to list everything Tor uses SHA-1 for today. - This is the first step in getting all the design work done to switch - to something else. - - This document SHOULD NOT be a clearinghouse of what to do about our - use of SHA-1. That's better left for other individual proposals. - - -Why now? - - The recent publication of "MD5 considered harmful today: Creating a - rogue CA certificate" by Alexander Sotirov, Marc Stevens, Jacob - Appelbaum, Arjen Lenstra, David Molnar, Dag Arne Osvik, and Benne de - Weger has reminded me that: - - * You can't rely on theoretical attacks to stay theoretical. - * It's quite unpleasant when theoretical attacks become practical - and public on days you were planning to leave for vacation. - * Broken hash functions (which SHA-1 is not quite yet AFAIU) - should be dropped like hot potatoes. Failure to do so can make - one look silly. - - -Triage - - How severe are these problems? Let's divide them into these - categories, where H(x) is the SHA-1 hash of x: - PREIMAGE -- find any x such that a H(x) has a chosen value - -- A SHA-1 usage that only depends on preimage - resistance - * Also SECOND PREIMAGE. Given x, find a y not equal to - x such that H(x) = H(y) - COLLISION<role> -- A SHA-1 usage that depends on collision - resistance, but the only party who could mount a - collision-based attack is already in a trusted role - (like a distribution signer or a directory authority). - COLLISION -- find any x and y such that H(x) = H(y) -- A - SHA-1 usage that depends on collision resistance - and doesn't need the attacker to have any special keys. - - There is no need to put much effort into fixing PREIMAGE and SECOND - PREIMAGE usages in the near-term: while there have been some - theoretical results doing these attacks against SHA-1, they don't - seem to be close to practical yet. To fix COLLISION<code-signing> - usages is not too important either, since anyone who has the key to - sign the code can mount far worse attacks. It would be good to fix - COLLISION<authority> usages, since we try to resist bad authorities - to a limited extent. The COLLISION usages are the most important - to fix. - - Kelsey and Schneier published a theoretical second preimage attack - against SHA-1 in 2005, so it would be a good idea to fix PREIMAGE - and SECOND PREIMAGE usages after fixing COLLISION usages or where fixes - require minimal effort. - - http://www.schneier.com/paper-preimages.html - - Additionally, we need to consider the impact of a successful attack - in each of these cases. SHA-1 collisions are still expensive even - if recent results are verified, and anybody with the resources to - compute one also has the resources to mount a decent Sybil attack. - - Let's be pessimistic, and not assume that producing collisions of - a given format is actually any harder than producing collisions at - all. - - -What Tor uses hashes for today: - -1. Infrastructure. - - A. Our X.509 certificates are signed with SHA-1. - COLLSION - B. TLS uses SHA-1 (and MD5) internally to generate keys. - PREIMAGE? - * At least breaking SHA-1 and MD5 simultaneously is - much more difficult than breaking either - independently. - C. Some of the TLS ciphersuites we allow use SHA-1. - PREIMAGE? - D. When we sign our code with GPG, it might be using SHA-1. - COLLISION<code-signing> - * GPG 1.4 and up have writing support for SHA-2 hashes. - This blog has help for converting: - http://www.schwer.us/journal/2005/02/19/sha-1-broken-and-gnupg-gpg/ - E. Our GPG keys might be authenticated with SHA-1. - COLLISION<code-signing-key-signing> - F. OpenSSL's random number generator uses SHA-1, I believe. - PREIMAGE - -2. The Tor protocol - - A. Everything we sign, we sign using SHA-1-based OAEP-MGF1. - PREIMAGE? - B. Our CREATE cell format uses SHA-1 for: OAEP padding. - PREIMAGE? - C. Our EXTEND cells use SHA-1 to hash the identity key of the - target server. - COLLISION - D. Our CREATED cells use SHA-1 to hash the derived key data. - ?? - E. The data we use in CREATE_FAST cells to generate a key is the - length of a SHA-1. - NONE - F. The data we send back in a CREATED/CREATED_FAST cell is the length - of a SHA-1. - NONE - G. We use SHA-1 to derive our circuit keys from the negotiated g^xy - value. - NONE - H. We use SHA-1 to derive the digest field of each RELAY cell, but that's - used more as a checksum than as a strong digest. - NONE - -3. Directory services - - [All are COLLISION or COLLISION<authority> ] - - A. All signatures are generated on the SHA-1 of their corresponding - documents, using PKCS1 padding. - * In dir-spec.txt, section 1.3, it states, - "SIGNATURE" Object contains a signature (using the signing key) - of the PKCS1-padded digest of the entire document, taken from - the beginning of the Initial item, through the newline after - the Signature Item's keyword and its arguments." - So our attacker, Malcom, could generate a collision for the hash - that is signed. Thus, a second pre-image attack is possible. - Vulnerable to regular collision attack only if key is stolen. - If the key is stolen, Malcom could distribute two different - copies of the document which have the same hash. Maybe useful - for a partitioning attack? - B. Router descriptors identify their corresponding extra-info documents - by their SHA-1 digest. - * A third party might use a second pre-image attack to generate a - false extra-info document that has the same hash. The router - itself might use a regular collision attack to generate multiple - extra-info documents with the same hash, which might be useful - for a partitioning attack. - C. Fingerprints in router descriptors are taken using SHA-1. - * The fingerprint must match the public key. Not sure what would - happen if two routers had different public keys but the same - fingerprint. There could perhaps be unpredictable behaviour. - D. In router descriptors, routers in the same "Family" may be listed - by server nicknames or hexdigests. - * Does not seem critical. - E. Fingerprints in authority certs are taken using SHA-1. - F. Fingerprints in dir-source lines of votes and consensuses are taken - using SHA-1. - G. Networkstatuses refer to routers identity keys and descriptors by their - SHA-1 digests. - H. Directory-signature lines identify which key is doing the signing by - the SHA-1 digests of the authority's signing key and its identity key. - I. The following items are downloaded by the SHA-1 of their contents: - XXXX list them - J. The following items are downloaded by the SHA-1 of an identity key: - XXXX list them too. - -4. The rendezvous protocol - - A. Hidden servers use SHA-1 to establish introduction points on relays, - and relays use SHA-1 to check incoming introduction point - establishment requests. - B. Hidden servers use SHA-1 in multiple places when generating hidden - service descriptors. - * The permanent-id is the first 80 bits of the SHA-1 hash of the - public key - ** time-period performs caclulations using the permanent-id - * The secret-id-part is the SHA-1 has of the time period, the - descriptor-cookie, and replica. - * Hash of introduction point's identity key. - C. Hidden servers performing basic-type client authorization for their - services use SHA-1 when encrypting introduction points contained in - hidden service descriptors. - D. Hidden service directories use SHA-1 to check whether a given hidden - service descriptor may be published under a given descriptor - identifier or not. - E. Hidden servers use SHA-1 to derive .onion addresses of their - services. - * What's worse, it only uses the first 80 bits of the SHA-1 hash. - However, the rend-spec.txt says we aren't worried about arbitrary - collisons? - F. Clients use SHA-1 to generate the current hidden service descriptor - identifiers for a given .onion address. - G. Hidden servers use SHA-1 to remember digests of the first parts of - Diffie-Hellman handshakes contained in introduction requests in order - to detect replays. See the RELAY_ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. We seem to be - taking a hash of a hash here. - H. Hidden servers use SHA-1 during the Diffie-Hellman key exchange with - a connecting client. - -5. The bridge protocol - - XXXX write me - - A. Client may attempt to query for bridges where he knows a digest - (probably SHA-1) before a direct query. - -6. The Tor user interface - - A. We log information about servers based on SHA-1 hashes of their - identity keys. - COLLISION - B. The controller identifies servers based on SHA-1 hashes of their - identity keys. - COLLISION - C. Nearly all of our configuration options that list servers allow SHA-1 - hashes of their identity keys. - COLLISION - E. The deprecated .exit notation uses SHA-1 hashes of identity keys - COLLISION |