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CryptoScope: Utilizing Large Language Models for Automated Cryptographic Logic Vulnerability Detection

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  • Haebom

Author

Zhihao Li, Zimo Ji, Tao Zheng, Hao Ren, Xiao Lan

Outline

This paper presents CryptoScope, a novel cryptographic vulnerability detection framework leveraging large-scale language models (LLMs). CryptoScope combines Chain of Thought (CoT) prompting and Augmented Search Generation (RAG) to guide a curated cryptographic knowledge base containing over 12,000 items. Evaluated using the LLM-CLVA benchmark (92 cases based on real-world CVE vulnerabilities), cryptographic challenges from the major Capture the Flag (CTF) competition, and synthetic examples from 11 programming languages, CryptoScope demonstrates performance improvements over existing robust LLM baseline models (11.62% for DeepSeek-V3, 20.28% for GPT-4o-mini, and 28.69% for GLM-4-Flash). Furthermore, it identifies nine previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used open-source cryptographic projects.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
Demonstrating the effectiveness of detecting cryptographic vulnerabilities using LLM.
Presenting the possibility of improving the performance of existing LLM-based detection systems.
Discovering new vulnerabilities in real open source projects.
Presentation of an effective combination of CoT prompting and RAG techniques.
Limitations:
Further research is needed on the scope and generalizability of the benchmark dataset.
The severity and actual impact of newly discovered vulnerabilities need to be assessed.
Research is needed on the scalability of CryptoScope and its applicability to various encryption algorithms.
Quantitative analysis of false positive and false negative rates is needed.
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