On evaluating the performance of security protocols

  • Authors:
  • Chiara Bodei;Mikael Buchholtz;Michele Curti;Pierpaolo Degano;Flemming Nielson;Hanne Riis Nielson;Corrado Priami

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy;Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy;Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark;Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark;Dipartimento di Informatica e Telecomunicazioni, Università di Trento, Povo (TN), Italy

  • Venue:
  • PaCT'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Parallel Computing Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We use an enhanced operational semantics to infer quantitative measures on systems describing cryptographic protocols. System transitions carry enhanced labels. We assign rates to transitions by only looking at these labels. The rates reflect the distributed architecture running applications and the use of possibly different crypto-systems. We then map transition systems to Markov chains and evaluate performance of systems, using standard tools.