how cryptography is used in malware and other cyber attacks
A cryptographis attack is a method for circumventing the security of a system by finding a weekness in a code,cipher,cryptographic protocol or key management scheme.
this process is also called " cryptanalysis ".
see also category: Computer security exploits
category:malware
This category has sub 6 categories:
1) attack on publlic-key cryptosystem
2)choosen plaintext attacks
3)cryptanalytic software
4)password crecking software
5)ransomewhere
6)side-channel attack
malware encription scheme:-
--> in each scheme we have an algorithm e encrioting messages.an algoritham D decrypting ciphrtext and an
algoritham R rerandomizing ciphertext.
--> in the path variant of the extended scheme we add a padding functinality to the rerandomize algoritham and rename it to padding algoritham P.
encryption:-
for a message m and jey k the encyption algoritham E(k,m) outputs a ciphertext c.
Decryption:-
for a ciphertext s and a key k the decryption algoritham D(c,k) either outputs a message m or a special symbol indicating decryption failure.
Rerandomization:-
for a ciphertext c,encrypting a message m, the rerandomize algorithm R(c) outputs a ciphertext 0 encypting the same message m.
Crrectness:-
if c was output from E(k,m) then D(k,c) will always output m except with negligible probability.
Key indistinguishability:-
it should be hard to say something about which key a chiphertext has been encypted under.
Insdistingushability:-
it should be hard to decide if two ciphertext,encypted under the same key, decrypts to the same messages or not.
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