Never Gonna Give You Up: Exploring Deprecated NULL Ciphers in Commercial VoWiFi Deployments
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| author | Gegenhuber, Gabriel Karl Frenzel, Philipp Weippl, Edgar |
| author_facet | Gegenhuber, Gabriel Karl Frenzel, Philipp Weippl, Edgar |
| contents | In today's cellular network evolutions, such as 4G and 5G, the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) serves as a crucial component in managing voice calls and handling short messages. Besides accessing the IMS over the traditional radio layer, many operators use Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) allowing customers to dial into their core network over the public Internet using an (insecure) Wi-Fi connection.
To protect against malicious actors on the WiFi or Internet domain, the traffic is sent over a series of IPsec tunnels, ensuring confidentiality and integrity. Similar to other encrypted protocols (e.g. TLS), the client and server use a handshake protocol (i.e., IKEv2) to communicate their supported security configurations and to agree upon the used parameters (e.g., keys or an encryption algorithm) for the ongoing session. This however opens the door for security vulnerabilities introduced by misconfiguration.
We want to analyze security configurations within commercial VoWiFi deployments, both on the client and server side, spotting deprecated configurations that undermine communication security. |
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| spellingShingle | Never Gonna Give You Up: Exploring Deprecated NULL Ciphers in Commercial VoWiFi Deployments Gegenhuber, Gabriel Karl Frenzel, Philipp Weippl, Edgar Networking and Internet Architecture Cryptography and Security In today's cellular network evolutions, such as 4G and 5G, the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) serves as a crucial component in managing voice calls and handling short messages. Besides accessing the IMS over the traditional radio layer, many operators use Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) allowing customers to dial into their core network over the public Internet using an (insecure) Wi-Fi connection. To protect against malicious actors on the WiFi or Internet domain, the traffic is sent over a series of IPsec tunnels, ensuring confidentiality and integrity. Similar to other encrypted protocols (e.g. TLS), the client and server use a handshake protocol (i.e., IKEv2) to communicate their supported security configurations and to agree upon the used parameters (e.g., keys or an encryption algorithm) for the ongoing session. This however opens the door for security vulnerabilities introduced by misconfiguration. We want to analyze security configurations within commercial VoWiFi deployments, both on the client and server side, spotting deprecated configurations that undermine communication security. |
| title | Never Gonna Give You Up: Exploring Deprecated NULL Ciphers in Commercial VoWiFi Deployments |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture Cryptography and Security |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12348 |