ControlYourCloud:BYOKisGood,

ButnotGoodEnough

May18th,2017,ICMC’2017,Arlington,VA,CA©Cryptomathic,2017

AboutCryptomathic•  Inbusinessfor30+years• Aso2warecompany,whichusesHSMsandHardwareSecurityPeripheralsExtensively.• AtechnologyproviderofCryptographicKeyManagementSystems

•  Sweetspotinhelpingaugmenthybridarchitectures• WerelyongoodandsoundHardwareSecurityProducts

BYOK• BYOK=BringYourOwnKey•  Itsuggestsaone-waymechanism:

•  FromtheperspecOveofaCloudCompuOngProvider:YourKey,intomyCloud.•  Theword“key”tendstobegenerallyunderstoodinaverybroadsense

•  SymmetricKeys•  GeneralPurposeEncrypOon/DecrypOonKeys•  MasterDerivaOonKeys(especiallyusedinfinancialservice)

•  AsymmetricKey(Pairs)•  -andcorrespondingcerOficates.

• However,inthecontextofCloudServiceProviders,itappearstohavebeenassignedamorelimitedmeaningforgeneralpurposecryptoonly–atleastiniOally.

CloudServiceProviders(CSPs)Offering•  ThreemajorcloudserviceprovidersalloffersomeformofCryptographicServices•  AmazonAWS•  Microso]Azure•  GoogleCloudPla^orm

•  Themainpurposesappeartobe•  PromoOngdirectintegraOonwiththeirownservices•  throughofferingexternalAPIsandcapabiliOes.

• AllthreeoffersomeformofKeyManagementServiceandcryptographicAPIs.

KeyManagementServicesoffered(re.BYOK)

•  HSM•  ThalesnShieldHSM

•  Crypto•  AES128or256andRSAkeys

•  BYOKProtocol/Format•  basedonThalescommands

AmazonAWS GoogleCloudPla^ormMicroso]Azure

•  HSM•  GemaltoLunaSAHSM

•  Crypto•  AES128and256keysonly

•  BYOKProtocol/Format•  PKCS#1towrapakey

•  HSM•  Nonecurrently

•  Crypto•  AES256keysonly

•  BYOKProtocol/Format•  RSA-OAEPencryptedkey

Data-at-restEncrypOonandAPIfuncOonality

•  Data-restEncrypRon•  AES128or256•  +rightsmanagementpolicy

•  CryptoservicesandAPIs•  Encrypt/decrypt•  SignandVerify•  Wrap/unwrap

AmazonAWS GoogleCloudPla^ormMicroso]Azure

•  Data-at-restencrypRon•  AES-GCM128or256

•  CryptoservicesandAPIs•  encrypt/decryptonlywithAES-GCM

•  basedonGemaltoHSM

•  Data-at-restencrypRon•  AES-GCM256

•  CryptoservicesandAPIs•  encrypt/decryptonlywithAES-GCM

BYOK–animportanttool(butnottheonlyone)• BYOKhelpsyougetyourowngeneratedkeyintotheCloud

•  -ratherthanhavingtheCSPgenerateoneforyouonyourbehalf.•  TheCloudServiceProvider“willhandleitforyou”–butthereisnocommonexportfacility•  Thus,ifyouneedacopy,besuretosaveonebeforesubmigngit!

• BYOKhas(slightly)differentmeaningsintheeyesoftheCSP•  BesureyouunderstandthelimitaOonsofwhatisavailable•  AlsounderstandyourresponsibiliOes,i.e.

•  DoyoureallywanttomanageyourencrypOonkeyinaspreadsheet?•  Probably,youalsohavemanyothertypesofkeysyouneedtomanage

EnterMYOK™-ManageYourOwnKey(s)•  Inmanagingyourownkeys,itisimpliedthat

•  Youcanworkwithyourkeyssecurely•  Youcanprovisionkeystowheretheyareneeded•  Youareabletomanagethelife-cycleofkeysyoumanage

•  GeneraOon,Import,Export•  Backup,Restore•  Update,Roll-back,Recover•  CerOfy,RecerOfyandRevoke

•  Ideally,youneedtobeabletodothisinawaythatismeaningfultoyourbusiness•  Acentralsystem,available(toyou)andunderyoursolecommand.

MYOKsoluOons–anexampleCentralizedKeyManagementSystemreplacingandunifyingpoorly-designed,proprietaryandmanualkeymanagementinterfacesofexisRngproductsandHSMs

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AdvancedKeyLifecycleManagement• Morethanjustkeys•  Name•  Algorithmandlength•  Exportsegngs

•  KCVlength•  Intendedrecipients•  Formats

•  Thebiggerpicture•  KeyUsageLogs•  Lifecyclestatus•  Customdata

TypicallyEncounteredKeyFormats(otherthanBYOK)•  AtallaKeyBlock/Variant

•  File-basedformat.ApplicaOonkeysonly.

•  CryptogramunderZMKP•  Exporttoafileencryptedbyapublickey.

•  PINpad•  ExportasXORsharesonaPINpad.Symmetrickeysonly.

•  PKCS#8Cryptogram•  ExportasanencryptedPKCS#8file.Asymmetrickeysonly.

•  StandardCryptogram•  Exportasanencryptedkeyfile.Symmetrickeysonly.

•  SubjectPublicKeyInfo•  Exportofpublickeys.

•  TR-31•  CompaOblewithe.g.ThalesPaymentsHSMs

•  IBMCCA•  ForIBMHSMs(withcontrolvector)

SoundArchitecture• Client/serverdesign•  Aservicewhichcanrunfromyourlabs(whetherowndatacenterordessktop)•  DBMS,HSM(FIPS140-2,L3)

• AdministratorsconnectfromWindowsclient•  SmartcardbasedauthenOcaOonforalloperaOons(FIPS140-2,L3)•  PINpadsforreadingcardsandimporOng/exporOng/prinOngkeyshares

Thankyoumao.Landrock@cryptomathic.com

MYOKisatrademarkofCryptomathic