A Generalized Two-Phase Analysis of Knowledge Flows in Security Protocols
Cryptography and Security
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We introduce knowledge flow analysis, a simple and flexible formalism for checking cryptographic protocols. Knowledge flows provide a uniform language for expressing the actions of principals, assump- tions about intruders, and the properties of cryptographic primitives. Our approach enables a generalized two-phase analysis: we extend the two-phase theory by identifying the necessary and sufficient proper- ties of a broad class of cryptographic primitives for which the theory holds. We also contribute a library of standard primitives and show that they satisfy our criteria.
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@article{arxiv.cs/0605097,
title = {A Generalized Two-Phase Analysis of Knowledge Flows in Security Protocols},
author = {Marten van Dijk and Emina Torlak and Blaise Gassend and Srinivas Devadas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0605097},
year = {2007}
}
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16 pages