From b1dff5c9b19a9c7a215e1c3f24d083086336c0cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: xtaci Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 12:32:34 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d6b22ec..ba7b852 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -165,11 +165,11 @@ Primary memory allocation are done from a global buffer pool xmit.Buf, in kcp-go 4. Information security -kcp-go is shipped with builtin packet encryption powered by various block encryption algorithms and works in Cipher Feedback Mode, for each packet to be sent, the encryption process will start from encrypting a nonce from the system entropy, so encryption to same plaintexts never leads to a same ciphertexts thereafter. +kcp-go is shipped with builtin packet encryption powered by various block encryption algorithms and works in [Cipher Feedback Mode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operation#Cipher_Feedback_(CFB)), for each packet to be sent, the encryption process will start from encrypting a [nonce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce) from the [system entropy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random), so encryption to same plaintexts never leads to a same ciphertexts thereafter. -The contents of the packets are completely anonymous with encryption, including the headers(FEC,KCP), checksums and contents. Note that, no matter which encryption method you choose on you upper layer, if you disable encryption by specifying -crypt none to kcp-go, the transmit will be insecure somehow, since the header is PLAINTEXT to everyone it would be susceptible to header tampering, such as jamming the sliding window size, round-trip time, FEC property and checksums. aes-128 is suggested for minimal encryption since modern CPUs are shipped with AES-NI instructions and performs even better than salsa20. +The contents of the packets are completely anonymous with encryption, including the headers(FEC,KCP), checksums and contents. Note that, no matter which encryption method you choose on you upper layer, if you disable encryption, the transmit will be insecure somehow, since the header is ***PLAINTEXT*** to everyone it would be susceptible to header tampering, such as jamming the *sliding window size*, *round-trip time*, *FEC property* and *checksums*. ```AES-128``` is suggested for minimal encryption since modern CPUs are shipped with [AES-NI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set) instructions and performs even better than `salsa20`(check the table below). -Other possible attacks to kcp-go includes: a) traffic analysis, dataflow on specific websites may have pattern while interchanging data, but this type of eavesdropping has been mitigated by adapting smux to mix data streams so as to introduce noises, perfect solution to this has not appeared yet, theroretically by shuffling/mixing messages on larger scale network may mitigate this problem. b) replay attack, since the asymmetrical encryption has not been introduced into kcp-go for some reason, capturing the packets and replay them on a different machine is possible, (notice: hijacking the session and decrypting the contents is still impossible), so upper layers should contain a asymmetrical encryption system to guarantee the authenticity of each message(to process message exactly once), such as HTTPS/OpenSSL/LibreSSL, only by signing the requests with private keys can eliminate this type of attack. +Other possible attacks to kcp-go includes: a) [traffic analysis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis), dataflow on specific websites may have pattern while interchanging data, but this type of eavesdropping has been mitigated by adapting [smux](https://github.com/xtaci/smux) to mix data streams so as to introduce noises, perfect solution to this has not appeared yet, theroretically by shuffling/mixing messages on larger scale network may mitigate this problem. b) [replay attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_attack), since the asymmetrical encryption has not been introduced into kcp-go for some reason, capturing the packets and replay them on a different machine is possible, (notice: hijacking the session and decrypting the contents is still *impossible*), so upper layers should contain a asymmetrical encryption system to guarantee the authenticity of each message(to process message exactly once), such as HTTPS/OpenSSL/LibreSSL, only by signing the requests with private keys can eliminate this type of attack. ## Connection Termination