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Provable Security

How I learned to stop worrying and love the backdoor

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Video duration
00:59:05
Language
English
Abstract
Modern cryptography is based on security-proofs. We will demonstrate how these work, why they are desirable and what their limitations are.

<p>Even the use of secure primitives like AES or RSA does not guarantee that the end-result is secure as well. In recent years breaks of modern primitives have in fact become exceedingly rare, yet stories like the KRACK-attack or ROBOT keep appearing.</p>

<p>The obvious answer to these problems would be to proof that our protocols are secure. While that may sound great in theory, there are many issues as well:</p>

<ul>
<li>Proving (almost) anything secure, would require to solve a millennium-problem.</li>
<li>Given the above, assumptions are required; but which assumptions are reasonable?</li>
<li>The word “secure” may seem intuitive, but can we formally define it? And can something be <em>too</em> secure?</li>
<li>Idealizing primitives can solve many problems, but what about over-idealizations?</li>
<li>Can backdoors be necessary to prove security?</li>
<li>A proof can only show the absence of attacks in a certain model. What about attacks outside those models?</li>
</ul>

Talk ID
9517
Event:
35c3
Day
3
Room
Dijkstra
Start
11:30 a.m.
Duration
01:00:00
Track
Security
Type of
lecture
Speaker
FJW
Lukas
Talk Slug & media link
35c3-9517-provable_security
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