Computer-assisted verification of a protocol for certified email

  • Authors:
  • Martín Abadi;Bruno Blanchet

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Cruz;École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France and Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Science of Computer Programming - Special issue: Static analysis symposium (SAS 2003)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present the formalization and verification of a recently developed cryptographic protocol for certified email. Relying on a tool for automatic protocol analysis, we establish the key security properties of the protocol. This case study explores the use of general correspondence assertions in automatic proofs, and aims to demonstrate the considerable power of the tool and its applicability to non-trivial, interesting protocols.