What is the best way to prove a cryptographic protocol correct?
Sreekanth Malladi, Gurdeep Singh Hura
Abstract
Sreekanth Malladi, Gurdeep Singh Hura
Abstract
In this paper, we identify that protocol verification using invariants have significant limitations such as inapplicability to some protocols, non-standard attacker inferences and non-free term algebras. We argue that constraint solving for bounded process analysis can be used in conjunction with decidability of context-explicit protocols as a verification tool and can overcome those limitations. However, this is possible only when new decidability results are obtained for protocol security, especially in presence of non-standard inferences and non-free term algebras.
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In this paper, we identify that protocol verification using invariants have significant limitations such as inapplicability to some protocols, non-standard attacker inferences and non-free term algebras. We argue that constraint solving for bounded process analysis can be used in conjunction with decidability of context-explicit protocols as a verification tool and can overcome those limitations. However, this is possible only when new decidability results are obtained for protocol security, especially in presence of non-standard inferences and non-free term algebras.
Key concepts: Decidability, Cryptographic protocol, Computer science, Protocol (science), Cryptography, Context (archaeology), Constraint (computer-aided design), Theoretical computer science