Satisfiability of Dolev-Yao Constraints

  • Authors:
  • Laurent Mazaré

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire VERIMAG, Grenoble, France

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The secrecy problem, under certain hypothesis, is equivalent to satisfiability of constraints involving Dolev-Yao's operator @?. Making some restrictions over these constraints, their satisfiability has been proven to be NP-complete. However, to check opacity [L. Mazare. Using unification for opacity properties. In Proc. of the Workshop on Issues in the Theory of Security (WITS'04). To appear, 2004] or some modified versions of secrecy, there is a need to find similar results for a larger class of predicates. This paper starts to extend this decidability result to more general constraints allowing in particular inequalities and gives a simple decision procedure based on a rewriting system.