Formal analysis of TESLA protocol in the timed OTS/CafeOBJ method

  • Authors:
  • Iakovos Ouranos;Kazuhiro Ogata;Petros Stefaneas

  • Affiliations:
  • Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority, Heraklion Airport, Greece,Computer Science Department, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece;School of Info. Sci., Japan Adv. Inst. of Sci. and Tech. (JAIST), Japan;School of Appl. Math. and Phys. Sci., National Tech. Univ. of Athens (NTUA), Greece

  • Venue:
  • ISoLA'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: applications and case studies - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2012
  • Timing constraints: theory meets practice

    ISoLA'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: applications and case studies - Volume Part II

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Abstract

The Timed Observational Transition System (TOTS)/CafeOBJ method is a version of the OTS/CafeOBJ method for modeling, specification and verification of distributed systems and protocols with real time constraints. In this paper we report on a case study from the field of source authentication protocols, TESLA protocol, to show the application of the method to such complex systems. We prove that our model of the protocol satisfies that the receiver does not accept as authentic any message unless it was actually sent by the sender. To verify the property we have used several other invariants which include timing information. To our knowledge, this is the first time that the method has been applied to the formal analysis of such a complex protocol.