A framework for analyzing probabilistic protocols and its application to the partial secrets exchange

  • Authors:
  • Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis;Catuscia Palamidessi

  • Affiliations:
  • LIX, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France;LIX, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

  • Venue:
  • TGC'05 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Trustworthy global computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We propose a probabilistic variant of the pi-calculus as a framework to specify randomized security protocols and their intended properties. In order to express an verify the correctness of the protocols, we develop a probabilistic version of the testing semantics. We then illustrate these concepts on an extended example: the Partial Secret Exchange, a protocol which uses a randomized primitive, the Oblivious Transfer, to achieve fairness of information exchange between two parties.