- Title
- Unlocking the armour: enabling intrusion detection and analysis of encrypted traffic streams
- Creator
- Irwin, Barry V W
- Date Issued
- 2005
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428845
- Identifier
- vital:72540
- Description
- In the interests of maintaining end to end security, increasing volumes of information are being encrypted while in transit. Many organisations and users will make use of secure encrypted protocols for information interchange given an option. The very security that is provided by these transport protocols, such as IPSEC, HTTPS and SSH also acts against the security monitoring of an organisation’s traffic. Intrusion detection systems are no longer easily able to inspect the payload of encrypted protocols. Similarly these protocols can potentially be difficult for securi-ty and network administrators to debug, validate and analyse. This pa-per discusses the need for a means of a trusted third party being able to unpack encrypted data traversing a network and a proposes an ar-chitecture which would enable this to be achieved through the extrac-tion and sharing of the appropriate encipherment tokens, based on the assumption that an organisation has legitimate access to one side of a communication entering or exiting its network. This problem also has particular relevance to honey-net research and for investigators trying to perform real-time monitoring of an intruder which is making use of such a protected protocol. A proof of concept implementation of the proposed architecture is also discussed.
- Format
- 9 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Information Security for South Africa
- Relation
- Irwin, B., 2005. Unlocking the armour: enabling intrusion detection and analysis of encrypted traffic streams. In ISSA (pp. 1-10)
- Relation
- Information Security for South Africa volume 2005 number 1 9 2005 2330-9881
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- Rights
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Irwin, Barry V W (Prof)
RU Department of Computer Science
SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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