Formal Reasoning about Physical Properties of Security Protocols
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
Analysing routing protocols: four nodes topologies are sufficient
POST'12 Proceedings of the First international conference on Principles of Security and Trust
Formal analysis of privacy for routing protocols in mobile ad hoc networks
POST'13 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Principles of Security and Trust
A semantic analysis of key management protocols for wireless sensor networks
Science of Computer Programming
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Mobile ad hoc networks consist of mobile wireless devices which autonomously organize their infrastructure. In such networks, a central issue, ensured by routing protocols, is to find a route from one device to another. Those protocols use cryptographic mechanisms in order to prevent malicious nodes from compromising the discovered route. Our contribution is twofold. We first propose a calculus for modeling and reasoning about security protocols, including in particular secured routing protocols. Our calculus extends standard symbolic models to take into account the characteristics of routing protocols and to model wireless communication in a more accurate way. Our second main contribution is a decision procedure for analyzing routing protocols for any network topology. By using constraint solving techniques, we show that it is possible to automatically discover (in NPTIME) whether there exists a network topology that would allow malicious nodes to mount an attack against the protocol, for a bounded number of sessions. We also provide a decision procedure for detecting attacks in case the network topology is given a priori. We demonstrate the usage and usefulness of our approach by analyzing the protocol SRP applied to DSR.