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Graded Symbolic Verification with a Fuzzy Dolev-Yao Attacker Model

Cryptography and Security 2026-04-28 v1 Formal Languages and Automata Theory Logic in Computer Science Symbolic Computation

Abstract

Classical symbolic protocol verification under Dolev--Yao uses binary attacker knowledge (known/unknown). This abstraction misses cumulative side-channel settings, where repeated noisy observations progressively improve attacker knowledge. We model this process with a graded attacker view μK[0,1]\mu_K\in[0,1], product T-norm leak updates, and finite-grid explicit-state execution in Modified Murphi. The method is optimised with exact concept-lattice attribute reducts and exposes threshold-driven safe-to-fail transitions that are not represented in corresponding binary runs under the same bounded assumptions. Executed results on symmetric and asymmetric protocols, including Needham--Schroeder--Lowe (NSL), show that baseline models passing under crisp semantics can fail once cumulative side-channel leakage is enabled.

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@article{arxiv.2604.15402,
  title  = {Graded Symbolic Verification with a Fuzzy Dolev-Yao Attacker Model},
  author = {Murat Moran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.15402},
  year   = {2026}
}