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Title:Automatic Analysis of the Security of XOR-based Key Management Schemes
Authors: Veronique Cortier ; Gavin Keighren ; Graham Steel
Date:Sep 2006
Publication Title:TACAS 2007 (13th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems), 28th-30th March 2007
Publisher:Springer-Verlag
Publication Type:Conference Paper Publication Status:Published
Page Nos:538-552
Abstract:
We describe a new algorithm for analysing security protocols that use XOR, such as key-management APIs. As a case study, we consider the IBM 4758 CCA API, which is widely used in the ATM (cash machine) network. Earlier versions of the CCA API were shown to have serious flaws, and the fixes introduced by IBM in version 2.41 had not previously been formally analysed. We first investigate IBM's proposals using a model checker for security protocol analysis, uncovering some important issues about their implementation. Having identified configurations we believed to be safe, we describe the formal verification of their security. We first define a new class of protocols, containing in particular all the versions of the CCA API. We then show that secrecy after an unbounded number of sessions is decidable for this class. Implementing the decision procedure requires some improvements, since the procedure is exponential. We describe a change of representation that leads to an implementation able to verify a configuration of the API in a few seconds. As a consequence, we obtain the first security proof of the fixed IBM 4758 CCA API with unbounded sessions.
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@InProceedings{EDI-INF-RR-0863,
author = { Veronique Cortier and Gavin Keighren and Graham Steel },
title = {Automatic Analysis of the Security of XOR-based Key Management Schemes},
book title = {TACAS 2007 (13th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems), 28th-30th March 2007},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
year = 2006,
month = {Sep},
pages = {538-552},
url = {http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/publications/CortierKeighrenSteel-Techreport.pdf},
}


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