Kremer, Steve and Künnemann, Robert (2014):
Automated analysis of security protocols with global state.
In: SP '14, In: Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, pp. 163-178,
IEEE Computer Society, San Jose, CA, USA, ISBN 978-1-4799-4686-0,
DOI: 10.1109/SP.2014.18,
[Conference or Workshop Item]
Abstract
Security APIs, key servers and protocols that need to keep the status of transactions, require to maintain a global, non-monotonic state, e.g., in the form of a database or register. However, existing automated verification tools do not support the analysis of such stateful security protocols - sometimes because of fundamental reasons, such as the encoding of the protocol as Horn clauses, which are inherently monotonic. An exception is the recent tamarin prover which allows specifying protocols as multiset rewrite (MSR) rules, a formalism expressive enough to encode state. As multiset rewriting is a "low-level" specification language with no direct support for concurrent message passing, encoding protocols correctly is a difficult and error-prone process. We propose a process calculus which is a variant of the applied pi calculus with constructs for manipulation of a global state by processes running in parallel. We show that this language can be translated to MSR rules whilst preserving all security properties expressible in a dedicated first-order logic for security properties. The translation has been implemented in a prototype tool which useqs the tamarin prover as a backend. We apply the tool to several case studies among which a simplified fragment of PKCS#11, the Yubikey security token, and an optimistic contract signing protocol.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item |
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Erschienen: | 2014 |
Creators: | Kremer, Steve and Künnemann, Robert |
Title: | Automated analysis of security protocols with global state |
Language: | German |
Abstract: | Security APIs, key servers and protocols that need to keep the status of transactions, require to maintain a global, non-monotonic state, e.g., in the form of a database or register. However, existing automated verification tools do not support the analysis of such stateful security protocols - sometimes because of fundamental reasons, such as the encoding of the protocol as Horn clauses, which are inherently monotonic. An exception is the recent tamarin prover which allows specifying protocols as multiset rewrite (MSR) rules, a formalism expressive enough to encode state. As multiset rewriting is a "low-level" specification language with no direct support for concurrent message passing, encoding protocols correctly is a difficult and error-prone process. We propose a process calculus which is a variant of the applied pi calculus with constructs for manipulation of a global state by processes running in parallel. We show that this language can be translated to MSR rules whilst preserving all security properties expressible in a dedicated first-order logic for security properties. The translation has been implemented in a prototype tool which useqs the tamarin prover as a backend. We apply the tool to several case studies among which a simplified fragment of PKCS#11, the Yubikey security token, and an optimistic contract signing protocol. |
Title of Book: | Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy |
Series Name: | SP '14 |
Publisher: | IEEE Computer Society |
ISBN: | 978-1-4799-4686-0 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Protocols, Security, Calculus, Mathematical model, Contracts, Analytical models, Semantics |
Divisions: | Profile Areas > Cybersecurity (CYSEC) Profile Areas |
Event Location: | San Jose, CA, USA |
Date Deposited: | 24 Aug 2017 15:54 |
DOI: | 10.1109/SP.2014.18 |
Identification Number: | TUD-CS-2014-1110 |
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