Combinatorial Coverage Analysis of Subsets of the TLS Cipher Suite Registry

Simos, Dimitris; Kleine, Kristoffer; Kuhn, Richard; Kacker, Raghu

Conference Paper

Combinatorial Coverage Analysis of Subsets of the TLS Cipher Suite Registry

Documentation Topics

Published: May 10, 2016

Author(s)

Dimitris Simos (SBA Research), Kristoffer Kleine (SBA Research), Richard Kuhn (NIST), Raghu Kacker (NIST)

Conference

Name: High Confidence Software and Systems Conference
Dates: May 10-12, 2016
Location: Annapolis, Maryland, United States

Abstract

We present a combinatorial coverage measurement analysis for (subsets) of the TLS cipher suite registries by analyzing the specified ciphers of IANA, ENISA, BSI, Mozilla and NSA Suite B. The method introduced here may contribute towards the design of quality measures of cipher suites, and may also be applied more broadly to the analysis of configurable systems.

Keywords

coverage; measurement; TLS; subsets; combinatorial testing; cipher suites

Control Families

None selected

Documentation

Publication:
Paper (see NIST SP 1232, p. SP-907)

Supplemental Material:
None available

Document History:
05/10/16: Conference Paper (Final)

Topics

Security and Privacy
cryptography

Applications
communications & wireless