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Malicious Cryptography

Malicious Cryptography Author: Dr Adam L Young Dr Moti Yung Publisher: Wiley Published: 2004 Pages: 392

Malicious Cryptography

Malicious Cryptography Chapters

Malicious Cryptography Chapters

1. Through Hacker's Eyes
2. Cryptovirology
3. Tools for Security and Insecurity
   • Sources of Entropy
   • Entropy Extraction via Hashing
   • Unbiasing a Biased Coin
   • Combining Weak Sources of Entropy
   • Pseudorandom Number Generators
   • Uniform Sampling
   • Random Permutation Generation
   • Sound Approach to Random Number Generation and Use
   • RNGs Are the Beating Heart of System Security
   • Cryptovirology Benefits from General Advances
4. The Two Faces of Anonymity
   • Anonymity in a Digital Age
   • Deniable Password Snatching
5. Cyrptocounters
   • Overview of Cryptocounters
   • Implementing Cryptocounters
   • Other Approaches to Cryptocounters
6. Computationally Secure Information Stealing
   • Using Viruses to Steal Information
   • Private Information Retrieval
   • A Variant of the Phi-Hiding Scheme
   • Tagged Private Information Retrieval
   • Secure Information Stealing Malware
   • Deniable Password Snatching on Phi-Hiding
   • Malware Loaders
   • Cryptographic Computing
7. Non-Zero Sum Games and Survivable Malware
   • Survivable Malware
   • Element of Game Theory
   • Attacking a Brokerage Firm
   • Other Tow-Player Game Attacks
   • Future Possibilities
8. Coping with Malicious Software
   • Undecidability of Virus Detection
   • Virus Identification and Obfuscation
   • Heuristic Virus Detection
   • Change Detection
9. The Nature of Trojan Horses
   • Text Editor Trojan Horse
   • Salami Slicing Attacks
   • Thompson's Password Snatcher
   • The Subtle Nature of Trojan Horses
10. Subliminal Channels
    • Brief History of Subliminal Channels
    • The Difference Between a Subliminal and a Covert Channel
    • The Prisoner's Problem of Gustavus Simmons
    • Subliminal Channels New and Old
    • The Impact of Subliminal Channels on Key Escrow
11. Attack on Factoring Based Key Generation
    • Honest Composite Key Generation
    • Weak Backdoor Attacks on Composite Key Generation
    • Probabilistic Bias Removal Method
    • Secretly Embedded Trapdoors
    • Key Generation SETUP Attack
    • Security of the SETUP Attack
    • Detecting the Attack in Code Reviews
    • Countering the SETUP Attack
    • Thinking Outside the Box
    • The Isaac Newton Institute Lecture
12. Attacks on Discrete-Log Cryptosystems
    • The Discrete-Log SETUP Primitive
    • Diffie-Hellman SETUP Attack
    • Security of the Diffie-Hellman SETUP Attack
    • Intuition Behind the Attack
    • Kleptogram Attack Methodology
    • PKCS SETUP Attacks
    • SETUP Attacks on Digital Signature Algorithm
    • Rouge Use of DSA for Encryption
    • Other Work in Kleptography
    • Should You Trust Your Smart Card?

Malicious Cryptography Appendices

1. Computer Virus Basics
   • Origins of Malicious Software
   • Trojans, Viruses and Worms: What is the Difference?
   • A Simple DOS COM Infector
   • Viruses Don't Have to Gain Control Before the Host
2. Notation and Other Background Information
   • Notation Used Throughout the Book
   • Basic Facts from Number Theory and Algorithmics
   • Intractability: Malware's Biggest Ally
     • The Factoring Problem
     • The ℯ^th Roots Problem
     • The Composite Residuosity Problem
     • The Decision Composite Residuosity Problem
     • The Quadratic Residuosity Problem
     • The Phi Hiding Problem
     • The Phi Sampling Problem
     • The Discrete Logarithm Problem
     • The Computational Diffie-Hellman Problem
     • The Decision Diffie-Hellman Problem
   • Random Oracles and Functions
3. Public Key Cryptography in a Nutshell
   • Overview of Cryptography
     • Classical Cryptography
     • The Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
     • Public Key Cryptography
     • Attacks on Cryptosystems
     • The Rabin Encryption Algorithm
     • The Rabin Signature Algorithm
     • The RSA Encryption Algorithm
     • The RSA Signature Algorithm
     • The Goldwasser-Micali Algorithm
     • Public Key Infrastructures
   • Discrete-Log Based Cryptosystems
     • The ElGamal Encryption Algorithm
     • Security of ElGamal
     • The Crammer-Shoup Encryption Algorithm
     • The ElGamal Signature Algorithm
     • The Pointcheval-Stern Signature Algorithm
     • The Schnorr Signature Algorithm
     • The Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA)
4. Glossary
5. References
6. Index