Bounding messages for free in security protocols

  • Authors:
  • Myrto Arapinis;Marie Duflot

  • Affiliations:
  • LACL, University Paris 12, France;LACL, University Paris 12, France

  • Venue:
  • FSTTCS'07 Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Foundations of software technology and theoretical computer science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The verification of security protocols has been proven to be undecidable in general. Different approaches use simplifying hypotheses in order to obtain decidability for interesting subclasses. Amongst the most common is type abstraction, i.e. considering only well-typed runs, therefore bounding message length. In this paper, we show how to get message boundedness "for free" under a reasonable (syntactic) assumption on protocols, which we call well-formedness. This enables us to improve existing decidability results.