A DEXPTIME-complete Dolev-Yao theory with distributive encryption

  • Authors:
  • A. Baskar;R. Ramanujam;S. P. Suresh

  • Affiliations:
  • Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India;Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai, India;Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India

  • Venue:
  • MFCS'10 Proceedings of the 35th international conference on Mathematical foundations of computer science
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In the context of modelling cryptographic tools like blind signatures and homomorphic encryption, the Dolev-Yao model is typically extended with an operator over which encryption is distributive. We consider one such theory which lacks any obvious locality property and show that its derivability problem is hard: in fact, it is DEXPTIME-complete. The result holds also when blind pairing is associative. The lower bound contrasts with PTIME decidability for restricted theories of blind signatures, and the upper bound with non-elementary decidability for abelian group operators with distributive encryption.