[erlang-questions] Secure Tokens

Bob Ippolito bob@REDACTED
Tue Apr 2 08:29:54 CEST 2013


If you take a look at the implementation in mochiweb_session, you'll see
that it's very similar in structure to termit but the IV is generated with
random bytes in encrypt_data/2 and there's an eq/2 function to do constant
time comparison of signatures.

If you're interested in learning more about crypto I highly recommend Dan
Boneh's class on Coursera https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov@REDACTED>wrote:

> Hi, Bob!
> Thank you for feedback. Am not an expert in crypto domain, so I wonder if
> you could help me amend termit' cryptosystem.
> TIA,
> --Vladimir
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Bob Ippolito <bob@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> No reason to celebrate just yet, termit has a broken cryptosystem. Here's
>> two things I noticed after a quick glance:
>>
>> * The IV is derived from the secret key. The IV must be unpredictable at
>> encryption time in CBC mode. This is VERY VERY bad.
>> * Verification of the signature isn't constant-time, so it's susceptible
>> to timing attacks. This is still bad, but probably harder to exploit.
>>
>> It would be unwise to use this implementation. I don't claim that the
>> mochiweb code is perfect, and I'm not a cryptograph expert, but I have
>> audited it and I didn't find any obvious flaws (other than the timing
>> attack that I fixed).
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Lee Sylvester <lee.sylvester@REDACTED>wrote:
>>
>>> Wow, a fernet like impl for Erlang!!! Perfect!!!  Thank you very much.
>>> This will make my life so much easier :-)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Lee
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2 Apr 2013, at 06:09, Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>
>>> I drive https://github.com/dvv/termit for this. Feel free to
>>> feedback/blame :)
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Bob Ippolito <bob@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There's something similar to your requirements in here:
>>>> https://github.com/mochi/mochiweb/blob/master/src/mochiweb_session.erl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Lee Sylvester <lee.sylvester@REDACTED>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> So, I'd like to create secure tokens in Erlang.  This can either be a
>>>>> simple UUID generator which I then store with user credentials or a way to
>>>>> encode a string, such as JSON, as an encrypted token.  In Golang, I would
>>>>> do this with fernet, but I need an Erlang solution :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> I know Erlang isn't best used for such tasks, but does anyone out
>>>>> there know of something usable for this purpose?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks loads,
>>>>> Lee
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