Process Calculi and the Verification of Security Properties

Michele Borelae and Daniele Gorla

Paper appeared in Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology - Special Issue on Cryptographic Protocol Verification (JTIT 2002/4), Warsaw (Poland), December 2002.

Abstract:

Recently there has been much interest towards using formal methods in the analysis of security protocols. Some recent approaches take advantage of concepts and techniques from the field of process calculi. Process calculi can be given a formal yet simple semantics, which permits rigorous definitions of such concepts as `attacker', `secrecy' and `authentication'. This feature has led to the development of solid reasoning methods and verification techniques, a few of which we outline in this paper.

@Article{BG:JTIT02,
  author    =  {M. Boreale and D. Gorla},
  title     =  {Process Calculi and the Verification of Security Properties},
  journal   =  {Journal of Telecommunication and Information Technology---
                Special Issue on Cryptographic Protocol Verification},
  number    =  {4/02},
  pages     =  {28--40},
  year      =  {2002},
  publisher =  {National Institute of Telecommunications - Warsaw},
}

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