Re: Null integrity protection and encryption algorithms

On May 7, 3:42 am, mike clark <undefinedsp...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 6, 6:24 pm, super manidhan <super.manid...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,
What is the need for Null Integrity Protection Algorithm ?

Which of the following does this null encryption or null integrity
algorithm basically refer to ?
1. We will not apply any encryption or integrity protection algorithm.
2. We should tweak encryption algorithm(example - AES-CTR) that will
encrypt such that the text 'S.Man' will get encrypted as 'S.Man' only
or we should tweak integrity algorithm(example - AES-CMAC) to generate
a 32-bit MAC of all zeros repectively.

Thx in advans

Having problems with homework? RFC 2410 is actually quite an
entertaining read. Check it out.http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2410.html

Thankyou for the reply.

That is, the RFC 2410 seems to convey that we should tweak encryption
algorithm(example - AES-CTR) that will encrypt such that the text
'S.Man' will get encrypted as 'S.Man' only or we should tweak
integrity
algorithm(example - AES-CMAC) to generate a 32-bit MAC of all zeros
repectively.

But, I wonder why should we need to go in for an algorithm to make
'b' appear as 'b' or apply an algorithm to get a 32-bit MAC of all
zeros ?
Isn't it enough to send it directly without applying any NULL
integrity protection
or NULL encryption algorithm ?


Extract from RFC 2410
=================
NULL is defined mathematically by the use of the Identity function
I applied to a block of data b such that

NULL(b) = I(b) = b


test_case = 1
data = 0x123456789abcdef
data_len = 8
NULL_data = 0x123456789abcdef

test_case = 2
data = "Network Security People Have A Strange Sense Of
Humor"
data_len = 53
NULL_data = "Network Security People Have A Strange Sense Of
Humor"

=======================


Thx in advans
.

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