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In this paper, we introduce a mechanism that aims to speed up the development cycle of security protocols, by adding automated aid for diagnosis and repair. Our mechanism relies on existing verification tools analyzing intermediate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-09 Dieter Hutter , Raul Monroy

The large number of recent JEDEC DRAM standard releases and their increasing feature set makes it difficult for designers to rapidly upgrade the memory controller IPs to each new standard. Especially the hardware verification is challenging…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Lukas Steiner , Chirag Sudarshan , Matthias Jung , Dominik Stoffel , Norbert Wehn

Validating wireless protocol implementations is challenging. Today's approaches require labor-intensive experimental setup and manual trace investigation, but produce poor coverage and inaccurate and irreproducible results. We present…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Jinghao Shi , Shuvendu Lahiri , Ranveer Chandra , Geoffrey Challen

Security protocols often use randomization to achieve probabilistic non-determinism. This non-determinism, in turn, is used in obfuscating the dependence of observable values on secret data. Since the correctness of security protocols is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-06-30 Susmit Jha

In the network design phase, designers typically assess the validity of the network configuration on paper. However, the interactions between devices based on network protocols can be complex, making this assessment challenging. Meanwhile,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Tomoya Fujita , Hikofumi Suzuki , Shinpei Ogata , Hiroaki Hashiura , Takashi Nagai , Kozo Okano

Blockchains facilitate secure resource transactions through smart contracts, yet these digital agreements are prone to vulnerabilities, particularly when interacting with external contracts, leading to substantial monetary losses.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Haojia Sun , Kunal Singh , Jan-Paul Ramos-Dávila , Jonathan Aldrich , Jenna DiVincenzo

As software becomes more complex and assumes an even greater role in our lives, formal verification is set to become the gold standard in securing software systems into the future, since it can guarantee the absence of errors and entire…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Carolina Carreira , João F. Ferreira , Alexandra Mendes , Nicolas Christin

Modern vehicles become increasingly digitalized with advanced information technology-based solutions like advanced driving assistance systems and vehicle-to-x communications. These systems are complex and interconnected. Rising complexity…

Use of formal techniques for verifying the security features of electronic commerce protocols would facilitate, the enhancement of reliability of such protocols, thereby increasing their usability. This paper projects the application of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-01-11 Suvansh Lal

Softwarization and virtualization in 5G and beyond necessitate thorough testing to ensure the security of critical infrastructure and networks, requiring the identification of vulnerabilities and unintended emergent behaviors from protocol…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Jingda Yang , Sudhanshu Arya , Ying Wang

Formal verification is crucial for ensuring the robustness of security protocols against adversarial attacks. The Needham-Schroeder protocol, a foundational authentication mechanism, has been extensively studied, including its integration…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kangfeng Ye , Roberto Metere , Jim Woodcock , Poonam Yadav

Autonomous space vehicles need adaptive control strategies that can accommodate unanticipated environmental conditions. The evaluation of new strategies can often be done only by actually trying them out in the real physical environment.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. W. Greenwood , X. Song

The design and verification of cryptographic protocols is a notoriously difficult task, even in symbolic models which take an abstract view of cryptography. This is mainly due to the fact that protocols may interact with an arbitrary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Myrto Arapinis , Stéphanie Delaune , Steve Kremer

This article introduces a fully automated verification technique that permits to analyze real-time systems described using a continuous notion of time and a mixture of operational (i.e., automata-based) and descriptive (i.e., logic-based)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Carlo A. Furia , Matteo Pradella , Matteo Rossi

Recently efficient model-checking tools have been developed to find flaws in security protocols specifications. These flaws can be interpreted as potential attacks scenarios but the feasability of these scenarios need to be confirmed at the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Hatem Ghabri , Ghazi Maatoug , Michael Rusinowitch

Consider the problem of verifying security properties of a cryptographic protocol coded in C. We propose an automatic solution that needs neither a pre-existing protocol description nor manual annotation of source code. First, symbolically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-07-07 Mihhail Aizatulin , Andrew D. Gordon , Jan Jürjens

Interactive theorem provers (ITPs) are powerful tools for the formal verification of mathematical proofs down to the axiom level. However, their lack of a natural language interface remains a significant limitation. Recent advancements in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Xiaolin Hu , Qinghua Zhou , Bogdan Grechuk , Ivan Y. Tyukin

Agent frameworks increasingly encode tool-using behavior as explicit workflow graphs, yet safety enforcement remains a runtime concern. These frameworks expose analyzable graph structure through their APIs, enabling pre-deployment static…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Melwin Xavier , Vaisakh M A , Melveena Jolly , Midhun Xavier

The advancement of mobile and wireless communication technologies in recent years introduced various adaptive protocols to adapt the need for secured communications. Security is a crucial success factor for any communication protocols,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-10 Shamim Ripon , Sumaya Mahbub , K. M. Intiaz-ud-Din

In this paper, we present a novel fraud-proof mechanism that achieves fast finality and, when combined with optimistic execution, enables real-time transaction processing. State-of-the-art optimistic rollups typically adopt a 7-day…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Gabriele Picco , Andrea Fortugno