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Practical Cryptography

매 한 줄

"매 don't roll your own crypto". 매 application engineer 의 task 는 매 well-vetted primitives (AES-GCM, ChaCha20-Poly1305, Ed25519, X25519) 의 correct composition — 매 algorithm 의 invention 아님. 2026 의 modern stack 은 libsodium, AWS KMS, age, Noise Protocol Framework 위 의 build.

매 핵심

매 Primitives (2026 baseline)

• Symmetric AEAD: ChaCha20-Poly1305 (mobile/no-AES-NI), AES-256-GCM (server with AES-NI), AES-256-GCM-SIV (nonce-misuse resistant).
• Asymmetric: X25519 (ECDH key agreement), Ed25519 (signing), Kyber-1024 (post-quantum KEM, NIST FIPS 203).
• Hashing: BLAKE3 (fast), SHA-256 (interop), Argon2id (password hashing, 2026 default).
• Key derivation: HKDF-SHA256 (key expansion), Argon2id (password → key).

매 Threat models

• Confidentiality: encrypt-then-MAC, AEAD prevents IND-CCA2 attacks.
• Integrity: HMAC, Poly1305, signatures.
• Authenticity: signatures (Ed25519), authenticated key exchange (Noise).
• Forward secrecy: ephemeral keys (X25519 per session).
• Post-quantum: hybrid Kyber + X25519 (2026 TLS 1.3 default).

매 응용

1. TLS 1.3 (transport security).
2. Signal Protocol (E2EE messaging — Double Ratchet).
3. age/rage (file encryption — replaces GPG).
4. JWT/PASETO (stateless tokens — PASETO preferred).
5. Password storage (Argon2id with per-user salt).

💻 패턴

AEAD encryption (ChaCha20-Poly1305 with libsodium)

from nacl.secret import SecretBox
from nacl.utils import random

key = random(SecretBox.KEY_SIZE)  # 32 bytes
box = SecretBox(key)

# Encrypt — nonce auto-generated, prepended to ciphertext
ciphertext = box.encrypt(b"sensitive data")

# Decrypt — fails with CryptoError on tampering
plaintext = box.decrypt(ciphertext)

Authenticated key exchange (X25519 + HKDF)

from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.x25519 import X25519PrivateKey
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.kdf.hkdf import HKDF
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import hashes

# Each party generates ephemeral keypair
alice_priv = X25519PrivateKey.generate()
bob_priv = X25519PrivateKey.generate()

# Compute shared secret
shared = alice_priv.exchange(bob_priv.public_key())

# Derive symmetric key — never use raw DH output as key
session_key = HKDF(
    algorithm=hashes.SHA256(),
    length=32,
    salt=None,
    info=b"session-v1",
).derive(shared)

Password hashing (Argon2id)

from argon2 import PasswordHasher

ph = PasswordHasher(
    time_cost=3,       # iterations
    memory_cost=65536, # 64 MiB
    parallelism=4,
)

hash = ph.hash("user-password")  # store this

# Verify (constant-time)
try:
    ph.verify(hash, "user-password")
    if ph.check_needs_rehash(hash):
        new_hash = ph.hash("user-password")  # parameter upgrade
except VerifyMismatchError:
    raise AuthError()

Digital signature (Ed25519)

from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ed25519 import Ed25519PrivateKey

priv = Ed25519PrivateKey.generate()
pub = priv.public_key()

signature = priv.sign(b"message")
pub.verify(signature, b"message")  # raises InvalidSignature on failure

Envelope encryption (KMS pattern)

import boto3
from cryptography.fernet import Fernet

kms = boto3.client("kms")

def encrypt_blob(plaintext: bytes, kms_key_id: str) -> dict:
    # Generate per-message data key
    resp = kms.generate_data_key(KeyId=kms_key_id, KeySpec="AES_256")
    data_key = resp["Plaintext"]
    encrypted_dk = resp["CiphertextBlob"]

    # Encrypt data with data key, discard plaintext data key
    f = Fernet(base64.urlsafe_b64encode(data_key))
    ct = f.encrypt(plaintext)

    return {"ciphertext": ct, "encrypted_key": encrypted_dk}

Constant-time comparison

import hmac

# WRONG — leaks length info via timing
if user_token == stored_token:
    pass

# RIGHT — constant time
if hmac.compare_digest(user_token, stored_token):
    pass

Post-quantum hybrid KEM (2026)

# liboqs-python — hybrid X25519 + Kyber768
from oqs import KeyEncapsulation
import nacl.public

# Classical X25519
x_priv = nacl.public.PrivateKey.generate()

# Post-quantum Kyber
with KeyEncapsulation("Kyber768") as kem:
    pq_pub = kem.generate_keypair()

# Combine both shared secrets via HKDF for hybrid security

매 결정 기준

상황	Approach
File encryption	age (modern), libsodium SecretBox
Password hash	Argon2id (never bcrypt for new systems)
Token format	PASETO v4 (Ed25519) over JWT
Mobile/IoT AEAD	ChaCha20-Poly1305
TLS 1.3 backend	rustls or BoringSSL, hybrid PQ enabled
Signing	Ed25519 (never RSA for new systems)

기본값: libsodium + Argon2id + Ed25519 + ChaCha20-Poly1305.

🔗 Graph

• 부모: Cryptography · Security
• 변형: Symmetric-Encryption · Post-Quantum-Cryptography
• 응용: Secret_Management · Zero-Trust Architecture
• Adjacent: OWASP Top 10 · Practical-Cryptography

🤖 LLM 활용

언제: explain primitive choice, audit crypto code for misuse, suggest migration paths. 언제 X: never ask LLM to design new protocol — always defer to peer-reviewed designs (Noise, Signal).

❌ 안티패턴

• Roll-your-own: custom XOR-based "encryption" — 매 broken in seconds.
• ECB mode: leaks pattern (penguin image meme). Always GCM/CTR/CBC-with-MAC.
• Static IV/nonce: catastrophic for GCM (key recovery). Always random or counter.
• MD5/SHA-1: collision-broken. Never for security purposes.
• bcrypt for new systems: Argon2id 2026 default.
• String comparison for tokens: use hmac.compare_digest.

🧪 검증 / 중복

• Verified (NIST FIPS 203/204/205, RFC 9180 HPKE, libsodium docs).
• 신뢰도 A.

🕓 Changelog

날짜	변경
2026-05-08	Phase 1
2026-05-10	Manual cleanup — full primitives + 2026 PQ baseline