A Secure Network Communication Based on Kerberos & MD5

A Secure Network Communication Based on Kerberos & MD5

B.SRIRAMULU1, T.CHANDRASHEKER2 and T.SURESH3.

1 Asst. Prof. in Department of CSE., Vijaya Institute of Technology for Women,Vijayawada.

2 M.Tech Coordinator & Lecturer in CSE Dept., RGU-IIIT Nuzvid, Nuzvidu.

3 Asst. Prof. in Department of CSE., Vijaya Institute of Technology for Women,Vijayawada.

Abstract

We will focus on cryptographic protocols intended to achieve authentication and data integrity over the networks. We aim to design a user authentication protocol that is not susceptible to password guessing attacks. We will present an authentication protocol based on the widely deployed Kerberos protocol with a little modification in the Kerberos database. The proposed protocol will be independent of the user password. The KDC will generate the realm principle secret key based on a saved profile in its database. The KDC will save a profile for every instance in the realm that it mange. This profile will be hashed and then, the output digest will be encrypted to generate the secret key. The lifetime of the secret key will be controlled using the system lifetime. By this way, we will overcome the weak passwords chosen by the network principal that are susceptible to password guessing attacks, the main drawback of the Kerberos protocol. In our implementation, will use Triple-Des as an encryption algorithm, MD5 as a hashing algorithm, and Blum Blum Shub as a random number generator algorithm.

Key words: Access control, authentication, authorization, computer network.

1. Introduction

   Over the centuries, an elaborate set of protocols and mechanisms have been created to deal with information security issues. The technical means to achieve information security in an electronic society are provided through cryptography. The cryptography is the study of mathematical techniques related to aspects of information security such as confidentiality, data integrity, access control, and authentication. Confidentiality is a service used to keep the contents of information from all but those authorized to have it. There are numerous approaches to provide confidentiality, e.g. the mathematical algorithms which render data unintelligible. Data integrity is a service that addresses the unauthorized alteration of data. To assure data integrity, one must have the ability to detect data manipulation by unauthorized parties. Data manipulation includes insertion, deletion, and substitution. Access controlwiws wth.iejert.com

   ability to limit the access to authorized users and applications. To achieve this, each entity trying to gain access must first be identified, or authenticated, so that access rights can be assigned to the individual. Authentication is a service related to identification. It is a fundamental building block for a secure networked environment. If a server knows the identity of a client, it can decide whether to provide the service, whether the user should be given special privileges, and so forth. In other words, authorization and accounting schemes can be built on top of authentication resulting in the required security to the computer network system. Protocols play a major role in cryptography and are essential in meeting cryptographic goals. We need protocols to apply cryptographic algorithms and techniques among the communicating parties. Encryption schemes, hash functions, and random number generators are among the primitives which may be utilized to build a protocol. A cryptographic protocol is a distributed algorithm defined by a sequence of steps precisely specifying the actions required of two or more entities to achieve a specific security objective. The whole point of using cryptography in a protocol is to detect or prevent attacks. The rest of the paper is organized as follows: we will begin with describing the motivation for the Kerberos approach and its environment in section 2. Then, we will outline a brief overview of the related work in section 3. After that, we will analyze Kerberos version 4, version 5, and the differences between them in section 4. While in section 5 we will discuss the Kerberos drawbacks. Then, we will examine the details used in our proposed authentication protocol, address its associated database, and present our testing environment in section 6. Finally, we will summarize the conclusions and the future work in section 7.

2. Motivation

   Modern computer systems provide service to multiple users and require the ability to accurately identify the user making a request. The process of verifying the user's identity is called authentication. Today, more common in computer network architecture is a distributed architecture

   consisting of dedicated user workstations (clients) 1

   and distributed or centralized servers. In this

   environment, network connections to other machines are supported. Thus, we need to protect user information and resources housed at the server. The authentication service in these environments can be achieved by using Kerberos. It is one of the most widely used authentication protocols. It addresses an open distributed environment in which users at workstations wish to access services on servers distributed throughout the network. Kerberos employs one or more Kerberos servers (the KDC: Kerberos Distribution Center) to provide an authentication service. Kerberos requires the user to prove his or her identity for each service invoked. It also requires that servers prove their identity to clients. The overall scheme of Kerberos is that of a trusted third party that uses a protocol based on that proposed by Needham and Schroeder [1]. It is trusted in the sense that clients and servers trust Kerberos to mediate their mutual authentication. Assuming the Kerberos protocol is well designed, then the authentication service is secure if the Kerberos server itself is secure. Kerberos provides a centralized authentication server whose function is to authenticate users to servers and servers to users. Kerberos relies exclusively on symmetric encryption, making no use of public-key encryption. Most of the secure routing protocols rely on public key infrastructures (PKI) to authenticate communicating nodes. Although PKI is secure, it is based on asymmetric cryptography and hence requires excessive processing and communication resources [2]. This resource hungry feature makes PKI based systems more susceptible to Denial of Service attacks. In contrast, Kerberos [3] is a symmetric key based authentication mechanism.

3. Literature Survey

   Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed Kerberos to protect network services provided by Project Athena. Several versions of the protocol exist; versions 13 occurred only internally at MIT. Many members of Project Athena contributed to the design and implementation of Kerberos [4]. In [5] there is a dialogue that was written in 1988 to help its readers understand the fundamental reasons for why the Kerberos V4 protocol was the way it was. It was amazing how much this dialogue was still applicable for the Kerberos V5 protocol. Although many things were changed, the basic core ideas of the protocol have remained the same. Steve Miller and Clifford Neuman are the primary designers of Kerberos version 4 with contributions from Jerome Saltzer and Jeffrey Schiller [6]. They published that version in the late 1980s, although they had targeted it primarily for Project Athena. Version 5, designed by John Kohl and Clifford Neuman, appeared as RFC 1510 in 1993 [3] (made obsolete by RFC 4120 in 2005 [7]), with the intention of

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   of version 4. Security of Kerberos has been analyzed in many works, e.g. [8], [9], [10], [11],

   [12], [13] and [14]. Most commonly analyses identify certain limitations of Kerberos and sometimes propose fixes. This leads to the evolution of the protocol when a new version patches the known vulnerabilities of the previous versions. The current version Kerberos V5 is already being revised and extended [7], [15], and [16]. F. Butler, I. Cervesato, A. Jaggard, and A. Scedrov have analyzed portions of the current version of Kerberos and have formally verified that the design of Kerberos current version meets the desired goals for the most parts [17]. A. Boldyreva and V. Kumar at 2007 take a close look at Kerberos encryption and confirm that most of the options in the current version provably provide privacy and authenticity [18]. Kerberos is also used in wireless applications. M. Erdem proposed a high speed 2G wireless authentication systems based on kerberos [19]. He used DES, 3DES and AES as secret-key crypto algorithms. He also used MD-51 message digest algorithm to hash the message blocks. Besides, A. Pirzada and Chris McDonald discuss how kerberos is used for authentication in mobile ad-hoc networks [20]. Kerberos is also introduced to be used in IPv6 networks. S. Sakane, N. Okabey, K. Kamadaz, and H. Esakix describe a method to establish secure communication using Kerberos in IPv6 networks [21]. They propose a mechanism to achieve access control using Kerberos and to deal with address resolution using Kerberos with modification. Nitin et. al present an image based authentication system using the Kerberos protocol at 2008 [22]. That paper is a comprehensive study on the subject of using images as a password and the implementation of Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT) Image Based Authentication (IBA) system called as JUIT-IBA using Kerberos protocol. In 2007, MIT formed the Kerberos Consortium along with some of the major vendors and users of Kerberos such as Sun Microsystems, Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc., to foster continued development. The MIT Kerberos Consortium was created to establish Kerberos as the universal authentication platform for the world's computer networks. Kerberos has grown to become the most widely deployed system for authentication and authorization in modern computer networks. Kerberos is currently shipped with all major computer operating systems and is uniquely positioned to become a universal solution to the distributed authentication and authorization problem of communicating parties [23].

4. Kerberos Messages Exchange

   A simplified overview of the Kerberos actions is shown in Figure 1. Exchange between the client and the Kerberos AS (Authentication Server) in messages 1 and 2 are used only when the user first

   logs in to the system. Exchange between the client 2

   and the Kerberos TGS (Ticket Granting Server) in messages 3 and 4 are used whenever a user authenticates to a new server. Message 5 is used each time the user authenticates itself to a server. And finally, message 6 is the mutual- authentication response by the server. The ticket plus the secret session key are the user credentials to be authenticated to a specific server.

   Figure 1. Overview of the Kerberos Actions

   1. Kerberos 4 Authentication Dialogue Kerberos Version 4 messages exchange is shown in Figure 2. Figure 2 (a) shows the technique for distributing the session key. The client sends a message to the AS requesting access to the TGS. The AS responds with a message, encrypted with a key derived from the user's password (K ) that C contains the TGS ticket ([24] describes the password to key transformation technique that is presented by the standard specification). The encrypted message also contains a copy of the session key, Kc,tgs, where the subscripts indicate that this is a session key for C and TGS. Because this session key is inside the message encrypted with K , only the client can read it. The same session key is C included in the ticket, which can be read only by the TGS since it is encrypted by the TGS key KTgs. Thus, the session key has been securely delivered to both the C and the TGS. Here, we will focus on some messages elements (the details can be found in [24]). The keys Kc,tgs and Kc,v are the session keys; where the subscripts indicate the communicating parties. Lifetime 2 and lifetime 4 are the lifetime of the TGS ticket and the server ticket respectively. Finally, at the conclusion of this process, the client and server share a secret session key Kc,v.

      Figure 2. Kerberos 4 Messages Exchange

   2. Kerberos 5 Authentication Dialogue

Kerberos 5 messages exchange is shown in Figure

1. This is best explained by comparison with version 4 (Figure 2). In message (1), the following new elements are added:

   • Realm: Indicates the realm of the client. Where the realm represents the nodes that are managed by a single KDC; i.e. share the same Kerberos database.

   • Options: Used to request that certain flags be set in the returned ticket. These flags are an added feature in Kerberos 5.

   • Times: Used by the client to request the following time settings in the ticket:

     O from: the desired start time for the requested ticket.

     O till: the requested expiration time for the requested ticket.

     O rtill: this field is only present in tickets that have the RENEWABLE flag set in the flags field.

     It indicates the maximum end-time that may be included in a renewal.

     • Nonce: it is a random value to be repeated in message (2) to assure that the response is fresh and has not been replayed by an opponent.

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     Figure 3. Kerberos 5 Messages Exchange

     Let us now compare the ticket-granting service exchange for versions 4 and 5. We see that message (3) in Figure 3 includes requested times and options for the ticket and a nonce, all with functions similar to those of message (1). Finally, for the client/server authentication exchange, several new features appear in version 5. In message (5), the client may request as an option that mutual authentication is required. The authenticator includes several new fields as follows:

     Subkey: The client's choice for an encryption key to be used to protect this specific application session. If this field is omitted, the session key from the ticket (Kc,v ) is used. If the client selects a sub-session key, care must be taken to ensure the randomness of the selected key.

     Sequence number: An optional field that specifies the starting sequence number to be used by the server for messages sent to the client during this session (to detect replays). After that, the server responds with message (6). This message includes the timestamp from the authenticator.

     The subkey field, if present, overrides t he subkey field of message (5). The optional sequence number field specifies the starting sequence number to be used by the client.

2. 3 Differences between Versions 4 and 5 Version 5 is intended to address the limitations of version 4. Let us briefly discuss the differences between the two versions:

   1. Encryption system dependence: Version 4

      requires the use of DES. In verswiownw.5ij,ert.com ciphertext is tagged with an encryption type

      identifier so that any encryption technique may be used.

   2. Internet protocol dependence: Version 4 requires the use of Internet Protocol (IPv4) addresses. Inversion 5, network address is tagged with type and length. This allows any network address type to be used.

   3. Ticket lifetime: Lifetime values in version 4 are encoded in an 8-bit quantity in units of five minutes. Thus, the maximum lifetime that can be expressed is 256 x 5 = 1280 minutes. In version 5, tickets include an explicit start and end times, allowing tickets with arbitrary lifetimes.

   4. Authentication forwarding: Version 4 dos not allow credentials issued to one client to be forwarded and used by some other clients. For example, a client issues a request to a print server that then accesses the client's file from a file server, using the client's credentials for access. Version 5 provides this capability.

   5. Double encryption: Note in Figure 2 that tickets provided to clients in messages (2) and

      (4) are encrypted twice, once with the secret key of the target server and then again with a secret key known to the client. The second encryption is not necessary and is computationally wasteful. It is avoided in version 5.

   6. PCBC encryption: Encryption in version 4 makes use of a nonstandard mode of DES known as propagating cipher block chaining (PCBC) ([24] describes this mode of operation). Security problems have been demonstrated in that mode [11]. Version 5 makes use of the standard CBC mode for encryption.

   7. Session keys: Each ticket includes a session key that is used by the client to encrypt the authenticator sent to the service associated with that ticket. In addition, the session key may subsequently be used by the client and the server to protect messages passed during that session. However, because the same ticket may be used repeatedly to gain service from a particular server, there is the risk that an opponent will replay messages from an old session to the client or the server. In version 5, it is possible for a client and server to negotiate a sub-session key, which is to be used only for that one connection. A new access by the client would result in the use of a new sub-session key.

   8. Password attacks: Both versions are vulnerable to a password guessing attack. The message from the AS to the client includes material encrypted with a key based on the client's password. An opponent can capture this message and attempt to decrypt it by trying various passwords. If the result of a test decryption is of the proper form, then the

   opponent has discovered the client's password 4

   and may subsequently use it to gain authentication credentials from Kerberos. Remember that when a user requests the ticket-granting ticket, the answer is returned encrypted with K , a key derived by C a publicly-known algorithm from the user's password.

3. Kerberos Drawbacks

   The protocol weaknesses can be summarized as follows:

   1. Kerberos requires continuous availability of the KDC. When the Kerberos server is down, the system will be vulnerable to the single point of failure problem. This can be mitigated by using multiple Kerberos servers.

   2. The system clocks of the hosts that are involved in the protocol should be synchronized. The tickets have a time availability period and if the host clock is

      the principal secret key. The block diagram of Figure 4 summarizes our proposed scheme to generate the principle secret key. It is also suggested to control the lifetime of that secret key. We introduce a simple idea for that. Since the system clocks of the hosts that are involved in the protocol should be synchronized (this can be maintained manually or assured by using Network Time Protocol daemons), we will append the current system timestamp to the principal profile every certain predefined period (this period is a design parameter; i.e. a site constant). Consequently, the input to the hashing algorithm will change, and thus the secret key will change too.

      Encryption Algorithm

      Hashing Algorithm

      i/p: Principle profile

      not synchronized with the Kerberos server clock, the authentication will fail. In practice, Network Time Protocol

      (Audio, Video, image text )

      O/p: Principle

      Secret

      daemons are usually used to keep the host clocks synchronized.

   3. "Password guessing" attacks are not solved by Kerberos. If a user chooses a poor password, it is possible for an attacker to successfully mount an offline dictionary attack by repeatedly attempting to decrypt messages obtained which are encrypted under a key derived from the user's password.

   4. There are no standards for the administration of the Kerberos protocol. This will differ between server implementations.

4. Contribution and Proposed work

   It is obvious that Kerberos is vulnerable to password guessing attacks. We present an authentication protocol based on Kerberos with a little modification in the Kerberos database. It will be independent of the user password. Instead, the KDC will save a profile for every principal in the realm that it manages. The contents of the profile may be audio, video, image, or text data. The KDC database may have profiles of mixed data contents (some profiles may be audio, others may be images, and so on).

   The realm principal may be a client or a server instance that participates in the network communication. Every principle (user or server) has to register with the Kerberos database. The principal will register with the Kerberos server by the principal ID. Then, the KDC will map this ID to the principal profile. The Kerberos server will generate the principal secret key by applying a hashing algorithm to the principal profile. The input to the hashing algorithm will be the principal

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   Figure 4. Secret Key Generation Block Diagram

   The machine which houses this database is called the master machine. It is extremely important that the master KDC will be installed on a carefully protected and physically secure machine. If possible, the machine should be dedicated to running the authentication server and the number of users with access should be limited. Also, there may be one more read-only copy of the Kerberos database on another machine called the slave. However, all changes to the database must be made on the master computer system. Changing or accessing the contents of a Kerberos database requires the Kerberos master password. At the principle side (a client or a server), the secret key may be obtained by one of two ways depending on the network administrator choice. The first option will be chosen if the administrator decided to keep the type of the profile contents secret. Then the principles secret keys will be distributed using another secure method. This can be achieved using hardware equipments or by using a secure delivery system. The second option will be chosen if the administrator decided to announce the type of the profile contents. In that case, every principle may keep a copy of his or her profile and prompt to enter the path of that profile during the run of the Kerberos protocol.

   1. Proposed Authentication Protocol

      Our proposed protocol message dialogue is presented in Figure 5. The elements of each message in the proposed protocol are summarized in Table 1. We introduce a comparison between

      Kerberos 4, Kerberos 5 and our proposed protocol 5

      in Table 2.

      11	Times	The times settings of the returned TGS ticket
      12	Nonce1	Repeat for the random value of message 1
      13	IDtgs	Confirms that this ticket is for the TGS
      14	Tickettgs	Reusable ticket to be used by client to access TGS
      15	Ktgs	Ticket is encrypted with key known only to AS and TGS, to prevent tampering Flags The flags of the returned TGS ticket
      16	Kc,tgs	Copy of session key accessible to TGSused to decrypt authenticator, hereby authenticating ticket
      17	IDC	Indicates the rightful owner of this ticket
      18	ADC	Prevents use of ticket from workstation other than one that initially requested the ticket
      19	Times	The times settings of the TGS ticket

      Figure 5.Proposed authentication protocol message exchanges

      Table 1. Summary for the elements of the proposed Protocol

      1	Message	Client requests ticket-granting ticket
      2	Options	requests that certain flags be set in the returned TGS ticket
      3	IDC	Tells AS identity of user from this client
      4	IDtgs	Tells AS that user requests access to TGS
      5	Times	Requests certain time settings in the returned TGS ticket (from, till, renew_till)
      6	Nonce1	Random value to be repeated in message (2) to avoid replay attack
      7	Message (2)	AS returns ticket-granting ticket
      8	IDC	The identity of user
      9	KC	Encryption by a key based on user's profile
      10	Kc,tgs	Copy of session key accessible to client created by AS to permit secure exchange between client and TGS without requiring them to share a permanent key

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      Table 1(a). Authentication Service Exchange

      1	Message (3)	Client requests service-granting ticket
      2	Options	requests that certain flags be set in the returned server ticket
      3	IDV	Tells TGS that user requests access to server V
      4	Times	Requests certain time settings in the returned server ticket (from, till, renew_till)
      5	Nonce2	Random value to be repeated in message (4) to avoid replay attack
      6	Tickettgs	Assures TGS that this user has been authenticated by AS
      7	Authentic atorC1	Generated by client to validate ticket. It assures TGS that the ticket presenter is the same as the client
      8	Kc,tgs	Authenticator is encrypted with key known only to client and TGS, to prevent tampering
      9	IDC	Must match ID in the TGS ticket to authenticate ticket
      10	ADC	Must match address in the TGS ticket to authenticate ticket.

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      9	Seq. #	An optional field that specifies the starting sequence number to be used by the server for messages sent to the client during this session to detect replays
      10	Message (6)	Optional authentication of server to client
      11	KC,V	Assures C that this message is from V

      11	TS1	Informs TGS of time this authenticator was generated
      12	Message	TGS returns service-granting ticket
      13	IDC	The identity of user
      14	Kc,tgs	Key shared only by C and TGS
      15	KC,V	Copy of session key accessible to
      16	Times	The times settings of the returned server ticket
      17	Nonce2	Repeat for the random value of
      18	IDV	Confirms that this ticket is for server
      19	TicketV	Reusable so that client does not
      20	KV	Ticket is encrypted with key known
      21	Flags	The flags of the returned server
      22	KC,V	Copy of session key accessible to
      23	IDC	Indicates the rightful owner of this ticket
      24	ADC	Prevents use of ticket from workstation other than one that initially Requested the ticket
      25	Times	The times settings of the server ticket

      1	Message (5)	Client requests service
      2	TicketV	Assures server that this user has been authenticated by AS
      3	AuthenticatorC2	Generated by client to validate ticket. It assures server that the ticket presenter is the same as the
      4	KC,V	Authenticator is encrypted with key known only to client
      5	IDC	Must match ID in the server ticket to authenticate ticket
      6	ADC	Must match address in the server ticket to authenticate ticket
      7	TS2	Informs server of time this authenticator was generated
      8	Subkey	The client's choice for an encryption key to be used to protect this specific application session. If this field is omitted, the session key from the ticket Kc,v

      Table 1(b). Ticket-Granting Service Exchange `

      Table 2. Comparison Between Kerberos 4, Kerberos 5 and Our Proposed Protocol

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   2. Testing Environment

   COMPARIS ION ITEM	KERBE ROS 4	KERBER OS 5	PROPOSED PROTOCOL
   Times	No Times	From, till, renew_til	From, till, renew_til
   Encryption technique	DES	Encryption key is tagged	Triple-DES
   DES mode of operation	PCBC (not	The standard CBC mode	The standard CBC mode
   Double encryption	Found	Not found	Not found
   Session key	1/lifetim e	Client & server may	Client & server may negotiate
   Passwordgu essingattac	Vulnera ble	Vulnerable	Keys are independent of
   Network address	IPv4	Any (network	IPv4
   Ticket lifetime	1280 minutes	Arbitrary (determine	Arbitrary (determined

   Figure 6 depicts our testing environment. The KDC is logically divided into the AS and the TGS. There exists a principal entry in the KDC database representing the TGS as a service. The AS (as well as the TGS) has access to the KDCs database and thus knows the long-term key associated with any user and any service registered or deployed in the realm. Besides, in our testing environment we have four client instances: client1, client2, client3, and client4. Finally, we got 2 servers: serverA, and serverB.

   In our implementation, we used Triple-DES in CBC modeas an encryption algorithm, MD- 5(Message Digest-5) as a Hashing algorithm, and Blum Blum Shub as a random number generator algorithm. In our design, the lifetime of the TGS ticket (the TGT) is 1 day, the lifetime of the server ticket is 8 hours, and the lifetime of the authenticator is 5 minutes.

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   Figure 6. A Schematic For The Testing LAN

5. Conclusions and Future Work

We introduced a LAN authentication protocol based on the widely deployed Kerberos authentication protocol with a little modification in the Kerberos database. It will be independent of the user password. The KDC will save a profile for every instance in the realm that it mange. This profile will be used to generate the principal secret key by applying a hashing algorithm to the profile. Then the output of the hashing algorithm will be encrypted to generate the principle secret key. The secret key lifetime will be controlled by appending the system lifetime to the instance profile. Thus, the secret key will be changed. By this way, we will overcome the weak passwords chosen by the network principal that are susceptible to password guessing attacks, the main drawback of the Kerberos protocol. We look forward to apply cross-realm authentication to our protocol in our future work.

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B.SRIRAMULU. Currently working as a Assistant Professor in Vijaya Institute of Technology for Women

(VITW) Enikepadu, Vijayawada. He received M.tech in Information Technology from Andhra University, B.Tech in Computer Science & Information Technology from J.N.T.U Hyderabad. He had 5 years of Teaching Experience..

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Kerberos Authentication System , SIGCOMM Comput.

T CHANDRASHEKER:

had recieved his MTech in Reliability Engineering from IIT Kharagpur , MTech in Computer Science and engineering from Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam and B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from JNTU College of Engineering, Kakinada.

working as Mtech Coordinator & Lecturer in CSE dept. in RGU IIIT Nuzvid.

SURESH. T. Currently working as a Assistant Professor in Vijaya Institute of Technology for Women (VITW) Enikepadu, Vijayawada. He pursuing his M.tech degree in J.N.T.U. kakinada. He Received B.Tech Degree from

J.N.T.U Hyderabad. He had 2 years of Teaching

and 3 years of Industry Experience. Interested domain is Network security along with this image processing.

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