Title :
Authentication via localized names
Author :
Bodei, Chiara ; Degano, Pierpaolo ; Focardi, Riccardo ; Priami, Corrado
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Inf., Pisa Univ., Italy
Abstract :
We address the problem of message authentication using the π-calculus, which has been given an operational semantics that provides each sequential process of a system with its own local space of names. We exploit here that semantics and its localized names to guarantee by construction that a message has been generated by a given entity. Therefore, our proposal can be seen as a reference for the analysis of “real” protocols. As an example, we study the way authentication is ensured by encrypting messages in the spi-calculus
Keywords :
message authentication; protocols; π-calculus; localized names; message authentication; messages authentication; operational semantics; protocols; semantics; sequential process; spi-calculus; Calculus; Communication system security; Concurrent computing; Cryptography; Electronic switching systems; Message authentication; Mobile agents; Proposals; Protocols;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Security Foundations Workshop, 1999. Proceedings of the 12th IEEE
Conference_Location :
Mordano
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0201-6
DOI :
10.1109/CSFW.1999.779766
