A logical language for specifying cryptographic protocol requirements

A formal language is presented for specifying and reasoning about cryptographic protocol requirements. Examples of simple sets of requirements in that language are given. The authors examine two versions of a protocol that might meet those requirements and show how to specify them in the language of the NRL Protocol Analyzer. They also show how to map one of the sets of formal requirements to the language of the NRL Protocol Analyzer and use the Analyzer to show that one version of the protocol meets those requirements. The Analyzer is used as a model checker to assess the validity of the formulas that make up the requirements.<<ETX>>

[1]  Virgil D. Gligor,et al.  On message integrity in cryptographic protocols , 1992, Proceedings 1992 IEEE Computer Society Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy.

[2]  Danny Dolev,et al.  On the security of public key protocols , 1981, 22nd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (sfcs 1981).

[3]  Martín Abadi.  An Axiomatization of Lamport's Temporal Logic of Actions , 1990, CONCUR.

[4]  Chris J. Mitchell,et al.  A security scheme for resource sharing over a network , 1990, Comput. Secur..

[5]  Catherine A. Meadows,et al.  A system for the specification and analysis of key management protocols , 1991, Proceedings. 1991 IEEE Computer Society Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy.

[6]  Paul F. Syverson.  The use of logic in the analysis of cryptographic protocols , 1991, Proceedings. 1991 IEEE Computer Society Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy.

[7]  Martín Abadi,et al.  Rejoinder to Nessett , 1990, OPSR.

[8]  Dan M. Nessett,et al.  A critique of the Burrows, Abadi and Needham logic , 1990, OPSR.

[9]  Mark R. Tuttle,et al.  A Semantics for a Logic of Authentication , 1991, PODC 1991.

[10]  Martín Abadi,et al.  A semantics for a logic of authentication (extended abstract) , 1991, PODC '91.

[11]  Martín Abadi,et al.  A logic of authentication , 1990, TOCS.

[12]  Leslie Lamport,et al.  The temporal logic of actions , 1994, TOPL.

[13]  Catherine A. Meadows,et al.  Applying Formal Methods to the Analysis of a Key Management Protocol , 1992, J. Comput. Secur..