Title :
Language generation and verification in the NRL protocol analyzer
Author :
Meadows, Catherine
Author_Institution :
Center for High Assurance Comput. Syst., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
The NRL protocol analyzer is a tool for proving security properties of cryptographic protocols, and for finding flaws if they exist. It is used by having the user first prove a number of lemmas stating that infinite classes of states are unreachable, and then performing an exhaustive search on the remaining state space. One main source of difficulty in using the tool is in generating the lemmas that are to be proved. In this paper we show how we have made the test easier by automating the generation of lemmas involving the use of formal languages
Keywords :
access protocols; cryptography; formal languages; formal verification; NRL protocol analyzer; cryptographic protocols; exhaustive search; formal languages; infinite classes of states; language generation; language verification; security properties; Automation; Cryptographic protocols; Cryptography; Failure analysis; Formal languages; Inspection; Laboratories; Plasma welding; Security; State-space methods;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Security Foundations Workshop, 1996. Proceedings., 9th IEEE
Conference_Location :
Kenmare
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7522-5
DOI :
10.1109/CSFW.1996.503690
