Fast automatic security protocol generation

  • Authors:
  • Hongbin Zhou;Simon N. Foley

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University College, Cork, Ireland. E-mails: {zhou, s.foley}@cs.ucc.ie;Department of Computer Science, University College, Cork, Ireland. E-mails: {zhou, s.foley}@cs.ucc.ie

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer Security
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

An automatic security protocol generator is described that uses logic-based heuristic rules to guide it in a backward search for suitable protocols from protocol goals. The approach taken is unlike existing automatic protocol generators which typically carry out a forward search for candidate protocols from the protocol assumptions. A prototype generator has been built that performs well in the automatic generation of authentication and key exchange protocols. “In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes A Study in Scarlet, 1887