Type-based verification of correspondence assertions for communication protocols

  • Authors:
  • Daisuke Kikuchi;Naoki Kobayashi

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University;Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University

  • Venue:
  • APLAS'07 Proceedings of the 5th Asian conference on Programming languages and systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Gordon and Jeffrey developed a type system for checking correspondence assertions. The correspondence assertions, proposed by Woo and Lam, state that when a certain event (called an "end" event) happens, the corresponding "begin" event must have occurred before. They can be used for checking authenticity in communication protocols. In this paper, we refine Gordon and Jeffrey's type system and develop a polynomial-time type inference algorithm, so that correspondence assertions can be verified fully automatically, without any type annotations. The main key idea that enables polynomial-time type inference is to introduce fractional effects; Without the fractional effects, the type inference problem is NP-hard.