47 | | • [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.78.8911 Model-Based Failure Analysis of Journaling File Systems] [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/wind/Publications/sfa-dsn05.pdf PDF] compares ext3, reiserfs, and JFS under conditions of latent sector errors. (Impatient people: read the Introduction and look at the table on page 9.) |
48 | | • [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.66.3785 IRON Filesystems] [https://www.cs.wisc.edu/wind/Publications/iron-sosp05.pdf PDF], a follow-on by the authors of "Model-Based Failure Analysis of Journaling File Systems" examines how ext3, reiserfs, xfs, and ntfs handle various sorts of errors (impatient people, see table on page 8, "File System Summary" on page 9, and table on page 10). |
49 | | • [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.80.8142 Using Model Checking to Find Serious File System Errors ] [https://www.stanford.edu/~engler/osdi04-fisc.pdf PDF] analyzes ext3, JFS, and reiserfs (impatient: page 10). |
50 | | • [https://www.stanford.edu/~engler/explode-osdi06.pdf eXplode: A lightweight, general approach for finding serious errors in storage systems], a follow-on by the authors of "Using Model Checking to Find Serious File System Errors", compares ext2, ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, jfs, xfs, msdos, vfat, hfs, and hfs+ to see if you sync them and then crash them if your allegedly synced data is actually recoverable (impatient: page 11) |
| 47 | * [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.78.8911 Model-Based Failure Analysis of Journaling File Systems] [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/wind/Publications/sfa-dsn05.pdf PDF] compares ext3, reiserfs, and JFS under conditions of latent sector errors. (Impatient people: read the Introduction and look at the table on page 9.) |
| 48 | * [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.66.3785 IRON Filesystems] [https://www.cs.wisc.edu/wind/Publications/iron-sosp05.pdf PDF], a follow-on by the authors of "Model-Based Failure Analysis of Journaling File Systems" examines how ext3, reiserfs, xfs, and ntfs handle various sorts of errors (impatient people, see table on page 8, "File System Summary" on page 9, and table on page 10). |
| 49 | * [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.80.8142 Using Model Checking to Find Serious File System Errors ] [https://www.stanford.edu/~engler/osdi04-fisc.pdf PDF] analyzes ext3, JFS, and reiserfs (impatient: page 10). |
| 50 | * [https://www.stanford.edu/~engler/explode-osdi06.pdf eXplode: A lightweight, general approach for finding serious errors in storage systems], a follow-on by the authors of "Using Model Checking to Find Serious File System Errors", compares ext2, ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, jfs, xfs, msdos, vfat, hfs, and hfs+ to see if you sync them and then crash them if your allegedly synced data is actually recoverable (impatient: page 11) |
81 | | • [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/mislove03post.html POST: A Secure, Resilient, Cooperative Messaging System] -- use a DHT for messaging; includes a suggestion to ameliorate the confidentiality problems of single-instance store by adding random bits to small text messages |
82 | | • [http://srhea.net/papers/ntr-worlds05.pdf Non-Transitive Connectivity and DHTs] -- practical lessons in dealing with not-fully-connected DHTs that theoreticians learned in deployment |
83 | | • [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/incast-fast2008-abstract.html Measurement and Analysis of TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-based Storage Systems] -- Hm... Could this happen to us? |
84 | | • [http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/194 Endomorphisms for faster elliptic curve cryptography on general curves] techniques to compute elliptic curve cryptography significantly faster in software. |
85 | | • [http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/391 Some thoughts on Collision Attacks in the Hash Functions MD5, SHA-0 and SHA-1] general musings about design of secure hash functions |
86 | | • [http://enrupt.com EnRUPT] a very simple, fast, and flexible primitive which could be used as stream cipher, secure hash function, or MAC (the first two are primitives that we currently need, and the third one -- MAC -- is a primitive that we may want in the future) and which relies for its security on a large number of rounds. The question of how many rounds to use is decided by semi-automated cryptanalysis. (Note: the SHA-3 candidate version of EnRUPT in stream hashing mode was insecure. The current block cipher mode is insecure. There is a minor change (use a few more rounds) which is thought to fix the stream hashing mode. The author is apparently working on a fix for the block cipher mode.) |
87 | | • [http://defectoscopy.com/results.html defectoscopy.com] a table of semi-automated cryptanalysis results from the inventors of EnRUPT. This technique has not been peer-reviewed by other cryptographers. I (Zooko) can't judge how valid it is. Note that MD4, MD5, SHA-0, SHA-1, SHA-2-256, and GOST are predicted to be insecure, while Tiger is predicted to be secure. AES-128 is predicted to be insecure. Salsa20 is predicted to be secure. |
88 | | • [http://webee.technion.ac.il/~hugo/kdf/kdf.pdf HKDF full paper] defines and analyzes the ''HKDF'' Key-Derivation Algorithm; A KDF is a linchpin component of our crypto schemes. |
89 | | • [http://cr.yp.to/chacha.html ChaChaCha20] even better stream cipher; It might be slightly safer than Salsa20 and it is certainly slightly faster on some platforms, but slightly slower on others. However, the author of Salsa20 and !ChaChaCha20, Daniel J. Bernstein, seems to have settled on using Salsa20 (or a tweak of it named XSalsa20), so probably that is the one to use. |
90 | | • [https://online.tu-graz.ac.at/tug_online/voe_main2.getvolltext?pDocumentNr=81263 Cryptanalysis of the Tiger Hash Function] by Mendel and Rijmen |
91 | | • [http://www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~dahmen/papers/DOTV08.pdf Digital Signatures out of Second-Preimage Resistant Hash Functions] by Dahmen, Okeya, Takagi, Vuillame; This scheme is secure as long as the underlying hash function has ''second-preimage resistance'', which real hash functions are a lot more likely to have than to have a stronger property like ''collision-resistance''. |
92 | | • [http://www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~dahmen/papers/hashbasedcrypto.pdf Hash-based Digital Signature Schemes] by Buchmann, Dahmen, and Szydlo; A survey of why it might be a good idea. |
93 | | • [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=8AC81C407AA3CBF35093032BD01F3085?doi=10.1.1.95.1374&rep=rep1&type=pdf Merkle Signatures with Virtually Unlimited Signature Capacity] by Buchmann, Dahmen, Klintsevich, Okeya, and Vuillaume; includes treating the parameters as an optimization problem and solving it with various weights or constraints to find various good settings for the parameters. Unfortunately their weights and constraints are different from hours: they thought it was fine to let key generation time take tens of hours! We want key generation time to be as few milliseconds as possible. A good rule of thumb for us would probably be try to reduce the time of whichever of the three operations is the slowest: key-generation, signing, and verification. |
94 | | • [https://www.minicrypt.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/reports/reports/REDBP08.pdf Fast Hash-Based Signatures on Constrained Devices] by Rohde, Eisenbarth, Dahmen, Buchmann, and Paar; a case study of implementing hash-based digital signatures for a 8-bit microcontroller. Their implementation had some trade-offs that we wouldn't want: it is a "key-evolving" design (the signer has to maintain state in order to avoid a security failure), it can only handle a limited number of signatures, and they spent a lot of time in key generation. Hm, they don't say how long key-generation took in this paper—only that it took so long that they had to run it on a PC instead of on their microcontroller. In [Merkle Signatures with Virtually Unlimited Signature Capacity], the key-generation took tens of hours on a PC!!! On the other hand, they do show a digital signature scheme which is faster at signing and verifying and is also arguably safer than RSA or ECDSA on their 8-bit microcontroller. |
95 | | • [http://www.cryptojedi.org/crypto/index.shtml#aesbs Bitsliced AES implementation] The faster and timing resistant implementation of AES-CTR in bitsliced mode by Peter Schwabe and Emilia Kasper. |
96 | | • [http://crypto.stanford.edu/vpaes/ Vector permutations and AES] The fast and timing-resistant implementations of Mike Hamburg using vector permute instructions (read: pshufb and vperm). |
| 81 | * [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/mislove03post.html POST: A Secure, Resilient, Cooperative Messaging System] -- use a DHT for messaging; includes a suggestion to ameliorate the confidentiality problems of single-instance store by adding random bits to small text messages |
| 82 | * [http://srhea.net/papers/ntr-worlds05.pdf Non-Transitive Connectivity and DHTs] -- practical lessons in dealing with not-fully-connected DHTs that theoreticians learned in deployment |
| 83 | * [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/incast-fast2008-abstract.html Measurement and Analysis of TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-based Storage Systems] -- Hm... Could this happen to us? |
| 84 | * [http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/194 Endomorphisms for faster elliptic curve cryptography on general curves] techniques to compute elliptic curve cryptography significantly faster in software. |
| 85 | * [http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/391 Some thoughts on Collision Attacks in the Hash Functions MD5, SHA-0 and SHA-1] general musings about design of secure hash functions |
| 86 | * [http://enrupt.com EnRUPT] a very simple, fast, and flexible primitive which could be used as stream cipher, secure hash function, or MAC (the first two are primitives that we currently need, and the third one -- MAC -- is a primitive that we may want in the future) and which relies for its security on a large number of rounds. The question of how many rounds to use is decided by semi-automated cryptanalysis. (Note: the SHA-3 candidate version of EnRUPT in stream hashing mode was insecure. The current block cipher mode is insecure. There is a minor change (use a few more rounds) which is thought to fix the stream hashing mode. The author is apparently working on a fix for the block cipher mode.) |
| 87 | * [http://defectoscopy.com/results.html defectoscopy.com] a table of semi-automated cryptanalysis results from the inventors of EnRUPT. This technique has not been peer-reviewed by other cryptographers. I (Zooko) can't judge how valid it is. Note that MD4, MD5, SHA-0, SHA-1, SHA-2-256, and GOST are predicted to be insecure, while Tiger is predicted to be secure. AES-128 is predicted to be insecure. Salsa20 is predicted to be secure. |
| 88 | * [http://webee.technion.ac.il/~hugo/kdf/kdf.pdf HKDF full paper] defines and analyzes the ''HKDF'' Key-Derivation Algorithm; A KDF is a linchpin component of our crypto schemes. |
| 89 | * [http://cr.yp.to/chacha.html ChaChaCha20] even better stream cipher; It might be slightly safer than Salsa20 and it is certainly slightly faster on some platforms, but slightly slower on others. However, the author of Salsa20 and !ChaChaCha20, Daniel J. Bernstein, seems to have settled on using Salsa20 (or a tweak of it named XSalsa20), so probably that is the one to use. |
| 90 | * [https://online.tu-graz.ac.at/tug_online/voe_main2.getvolltext?pDocumentNr=81263 Cryptanalysis of the Tiger Hash Function] by Mendel and Rijmen |
| 91 | * [http://www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~dahmen/papers/DOTV08.pdf Digital Signatures out of Second-Preimage Resistant Hash Functions] by Dahmen, Okeya, Takagi, Vuillame; This scheme is secure as long as the underlying hash function has ''second-preimage resistance'', which real hash functions are a lot more likely to have than to have a stronger property like ''collision-resistance''. |
| 92 | * [http://www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~dahmen/papers/hashbasedcrypto.pdf Hash-based Digital Signature Schemes] by Buchmann, Dahmen, and Szydlo; A survey of why it might be a good idea. |
| 93 | * [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=8AC81C407AA3CBF35093032BD01F3085?doi=10.1.1.95.1374&rep=rep1&type=pdf Merkle Signatures with Virtually Unlimited Signature Capacity] by Buchmann, Dahmen, Klintsevich, Okeya, and Vuillaume; includes treating the parameters as an optimization problem and solving it with various weights or constraints to find various good settings for the parameters. Unfortunately their weights and constraints are different from hours: they thought it was fine to let key generation time take tens of hours! We want key generation time to be as few milliseconds as possible. A good rule of thumb for us would probably be try to reduce the time of whichever of the three operations is the slowest: key-generation, signing, and verification. |
| 94 | * [https://www.minicrypt.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/reports/reports/REDBP08.pdf Fast Hash-Based Signatures on Constrained Devices] by Rohde, Eisenbarth, Dahmen, Buchmann, and Paar; a case study of implementing hash-based digital signatures for a 8-bit microcontroller. Their implementation had some trade-offs that we wouldn't want: it is a "key-evolving" design (the signer has to maintain state in order to avoid a security failure), it can only handle a limited number of signatures, and they spent a lot of time in key generation. Hm, they don't say how long key-generation took in this paper—only that it took so long that they had to run it on a PC instead of on their microcontroller. In [Merkle Signatures with Virtually Unlimited Signature Capacity], the key-generation took tens of hours on a PC!!! On the other hand, they do show a digital signature scheme which is faster at signing and verifying and is also arguably safer than RSA or ECDSA on their 8-bit microcontroller. |
| 95 | * [http://www.cryptojedi.org/crypto/index.shtml#aesbs Bitsliced AES implementation] The faster and timing resistant implementation of AES-CTR in bitsliced mode by Peter Schwabe and Emilia Kasper. |
| 96 | * [http://crypto.stanford.edu/vpaes/ Vector permutations and AES] The fast and timing-resistant implementations of Mike Hamburg using vector permute instructions (read: pshufb and vperm). |