Formal Correctness of Security Protocols With 62 Figures and 4 Tables /

• Main Author: Bella, Giampaolo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Information Security and Cryptography, Texts and Monographs,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Computer security.; Data structures (Computer science).; Mathematical logic.; Artificial intelligence.; Electrical engineering.; Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Systems and Data Security.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Communications Engineering, Networks.

Computer network security is critical to fraud prevention and accountability. Network participants are required to observe predefined steps called security protocols, whose proof of correctness is evidence that each protocol step preserves some desired properties. The author investigates proofs of c...

Table of Contents:

• The Analysis of Security Protocols
• The Inductive Method
• Verifying the Protocol Goals
• The Principle of Goal Availability
• Modelling Timestamping and Verifying a Classical Protocol
• Verifying a Deployed Protocol
• Modelling Agents’ Knowledge of Messages
• Verifying Another Deployed Protocol
• Modelling Smartcards
• Verifying a Smartcard Protocol
• Modelling Accountability
• Verifying Two Accountability Protocols
• Conclusions.