Specifying Secure Transport Channels

  • Authors:
  • Christopher Dilloway;Gavin Lowe

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CSF '08 Proceedings of the 2008 21st IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Security architectures often make use of secure transport protocols to protect network messages: the transport protocols provide secure channels between hosts. In this paper we present a hierarchy of specifications for secure channels. We give trace specifications capturing a number of different confidentiality and authentication properties that secure channels might satisfy, and compare their strengths. We use the various modes of TLS as a running example, and we give examples of single-message protocols that we believe satisfy the channel specifications.