WEP-WAP

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WEP-WAP
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Goals

• Biometric protocols suitable for a wireless
  networked environment
• Secure system/network access via biometric
  authentication
• Secure wireless transmission of biometric data

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Why Wireless Biometrics?

• Combination of two rapidly growing technologies
• Biometric systems for verification and
  identification
• Homeland Security
• Wireless systems for mobility
• Over 1 trillion wireless phone min. in US, 2004
• Common advantage is convenience

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Human authentication

• Types of human authentication
• What you know (secret)
• Password, PIN, mothers maiden name
• What you have (token)
• ATM card, smart card
• What you are (biometric)
• Stable fingerprint, face, iris
• Alterable voice, keystroke
• Where you are (authorization?)
• Wireless

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Biometric Advantages

• Convenience
• Cant be lost (in general)
• Cant be forgotten
• Cant be loaned
• Mostly unique (matching may not be)
• Perceived strong non-repudiation
• Does not change significantly (in general)
  (Ident.)
• Both verification and identification applications

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Biometric Authentication System
Source Podio, NIST
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Wireless Biometric System Security

• Security issues
• Biometric authentication to ensure secure access
  to the system/network
• In other words, wireless system access security
• Wireless message authentication to ensure secure
  transmission of biometric data
• In other words, personal information security and
  privacy across the wireless network
• Physical security
• Devices, computers, transmitters/receivers, etc.

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Biometric Authentication Threats
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Biometric Cryptography

• Use of biometric data for encryption decryption
• fuzzy commitment, vault Ari Juels, RSA Labs

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Biometric Cryptography (example)
00000 11111
01010 10101
01010 01010
Enroll (Encrypt)
Password (hashed)
Template (key)
E(h(Pwd))
stored
compare
Within Threshold?
Template (key)
10000 10111
live
Hamming Distance 2
11010 11101
Verify (Decrypt)
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Biometrics Standards

• Common Biometric Exchange File Format (CBEFF)
• ANSI-NIST-ITL-2000
• Data exchange quality
• Criminal identification
• American Association for Motor Vehicle
  Administration (AAMVA) DL/ID 2000
• FBI
• Wavelet Scalar Quantization (WSQ) fingerprint
  image (de)compression
• Electronic Fingerprint Transmission Standard
  (EFTS)
• Intel Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA)
• ANSI X9.84 Biometric data security (life cycle)
• Originally developed for financial industry uses
  CBEFF
• APIs
• Open BioAPI, Java Card Biometric API uses CBEFF
• Proprietary BAPI what is Microsoft planning?
• XCBF
• XML Common Biometric Format from OASIS uses
  CBEFF
• Mechanisms for secure transmission, storage,
  integrity, privacy of biometrics

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Biometric Standards

• Recently from NIST
• Biometric Data Specification for Personal
  Identity Verification (PIV)
• January 24, 2005 (Draft)
• New standards governing interoperable use of
  identity credentials to allow physical and
  logical access to federal government locations
  and systems
• Technical and formatting requirements for
  biometric credentials
• Restricts values and practices for fingerprints
  and facial images
• Geared toward FBI background checks and
  formatting data for a PIV card
• CBEFF and BioAPI compliant

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Wireless Advantages

• Mobility
• Flexibility
• Easier to relocate and configure
• More scalable
• Cost
• No cost due to physical barriers, private
  property.
• Productivity
• More opportunity to connect
• Aesthetics
• No clutter from wires
• Robustness
• Less physical infrastructure to damage and repair

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Wireless Disadvantages

• Lower channel capacity
• Limited spectrum available
• Power restrictions
• Noise levels
• Noise and interference
• Frequency allocation
• U.S. FCC
• Greater security concern
• Information traveling in free space

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Wireless Protocols

• Network domains
• Broadband
• IEEE 802.16, Worldwide Interoperability for
  Microwave Access (WiMAX) framework, not single
  system or class of service
• Cellular networks
• Global System for Mobile communication (GSM)
• Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS
  WCDMA)
• Cordless systems
• Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)
• Time Division Duplex (TDD)
• Mobile Internet Protocol (Mobile IP)
• Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)
• IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) a,b,g (n not yet ratified)
• Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN)
• IrDA, Bluetooth, ultra wideband, wireless USB
• Home Automation (narrow band)
• Infineon, ZigBee, Z-Wave

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Wireless Protocol Comparison
Source PC Magazine, March 22, 2004
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Security and Protocols

• Security domains
• Application security
• Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
• Uses Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS)
• Current Class 2 devices based on IETF SSL/TLS
• Future Class 3 devices will use a WAP Identity
  Module (WIM)
• Web services
• Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) toolkits
  available for Java .NET
• Operating system security (Java run-time, Palm
  OS, Microsoft Windows CE)
• Device security (PINs, pass-phrases, biometrics)
• Security of wireless protocols
• IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi)
• Wireless Encryption Protocol (WEP) weak and
  flawed
• Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA). Uses Temporal Key
  Integrity Protocol (TKIP)
• IEEE 802.11i Wireless Security spec. (WPA, AES,
  FIPS 140-2 compliant)
• Authentication security
• Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
  (RADIUS)
• Kerberos
• SSL

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Network Encryption

• Secure Shell (SSH)
• Application Layer
• Secure remote connection replacement for telnet,
  rlogin, rsh
• Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
• Transport Layer Security (TLS)
• Uses TCP has specific port numbers
• Main use is HTTPS (port 443)
• Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)
• Network Layer
• Includes a key management protocol
• Included in IPv6

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Avenues of Attack
wireless
LAN- connected Computer
Local Computer
LAN
Remote Computer
Capture Device
WAN
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Wireless Security Issues

• Denial of Service (DoS)
• JammingUse Spread Spectrum (DSSS, FHSS)
  technology
• As a device battery attack, i.e., more processing
  more battery usage
• Eavesdropping
• Signal is in the open air (war dialing)
• Theft or loss of device
• Due to size, portability, and utility
• Dependency on public-shared infrastructure
• What security is in place?
• Masquerading
• Rogue clients pretend to be legitimate endpoint
• Rogue access points trick clients to logging in
• Malware
• Worms (Cabir) and Viruses (Timfonica, Phage) on
  wireless devices
• Use Antivirus software

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Wireless Security Paradox

• We use wireless devices for convenience
• Security measures often decrease convenience and
  performance
• Result Security features are often disabled or
  given lower priority

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System Design Considerations

• Verification
• Are you who you claim to be (or are supposed to
  be)?
• 11 matching
• Usually consensual
• Typically smaller template databases
• Authorization (computer, network, building)
• Identification
• Who are you?
• 1n matching
• Often no explicit consent or awareness
• Typically larger template databases
• Surveillance (homeland and border security),
  forensics, criminal investigation (AFIS)
• Why not both?
• i.e. You are not who you say you are, so who are
  you?

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Future Research

• Pattern for fuzzy matching?
• Biometrics, digital watermarks, IDS, search
  engines
• Biometric cryptography
• Biometric key generation
• Fuzzy matching methodologies
• Embedding biometric keys within wireless
  protocols
• X.509 certificates
• Protocol payload area
• Protocol header (authentication) area
• Use coefficients? (polynomial, elliptic curve)