Channel abstractions for network security†

  • Authors:
  • Michele Bugliesi;Riccardo Focardi

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di informatica, università/ ca' foscari venezia, via torino 155, 30172 venezia-mestre, italy email: bugliesi@dsi.unive.it/ focardi@dsi.unive.it;Dipartimento di informatica, università/ ca' foscari venezia, via torino 155, 30172 venezia-mestre, italy email: bugliesi@dsi.unive.it/ focardi@dsi.unive.it

  • Venue:
  • Mathematical Structures in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Process algebraic techniques for distributed systems are increasingly being targeted at identifying abstractions that are adequate for both high-level programming and specification and security analysis and verification. Drawing on our earlier work in Bugliesi and Focardi, (2008), we investigate the expressive power of a core set of security and network abstractions that provide high-level primitives for specifying the honest principals in a network, while at the same time enabling an analysis of the network-level adversarial attacks that may be mounted by an intruder. We analyse various bisimulation equivalences for security that arise from endowing the intruder with: (i)different adversarial capabilities; and(ii)increasingly powerful control over the interaction among the distributed principals of a network. By comparing the relative strength of the bisimulation equivalences, we obtain a direct measure of the intruder's discriminating power, and hence of the expressiveness of the corresponding intruder model.