FLOC 2018: FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE 2018
A little more conversation, a little less action, a lot more satisfaction: Global states in ProVerif.

Authors: Vincent Cheval, Veronique Cortier and Mathieu Turuani

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Title:A little more conversation, a little less action, a lot more satisfaction: Global states in ProVerif.
Authors:Vincent Cheval, Veronique Cortier and Mathieu Turuani
Proceedings:CSF CSF Proceedings
Editors: Stephen Chong, Stephanie Delaune and Deepak Garg
Keywords:security protocols, global states, verification
Abstract:

ABSTRACT. ProVerif is a popular tool for the fully automatic analysis of security protocols, offering very good support to detect flaws or prove security. One exception is the case of protocols with global states such as counters, tables, or more generally, memory cells. ProVerif fails to analyse such protocols, due to its internal abstraction.

Our key idea is to devise a generic transformation of the security properties queried to ProVerif. We prove the soundness of our transformation and implement it into a front-end GBVerif. Our experiments show that our front-end (combined with ProVerif) outperforms the few existing tools, both in terms of efficiency and protocol coverage. We successfully apply our tool to a dozen of protocols of the literature, yielding the first fully automatic proof of a security API and a payment protocol of the literature.

Pages:15
Talk:Jul 12 11:00 (Session 74A: Security protocols II)
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