inria-00614372, version 1
Modular Code-Based Cryptographic Verification
Cédric Fournet
1Markulf Kohlweiss
1Pierre-Yves Strub
2
18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (2011)
Abstract: Type systems are effective tools for verifying the security of cryptographic programs. They provide automation, modularity and scalability, and have been applied to large security protocols. However, they traditionally rely on abstract assumptions on the underlying cryptographic primitives, expressed in symbolic models. Cryptographers usually reason on security assumptions using lower level, computational models that precisely account for the complexity and success probability of attacks. These models are more realistic, but they are harder to formalize and automate. We present the first modular automated program verification method based on standard cryptographic assumptions. We show how to verify ideal functionalities and protocols written in ML by typing them against new cryptographic interfaces using F7, a refinement type checker coupled with an SMT-solver. We develop a probabilistic core calculus for F7 and formalize its type safety in Coq. We build typed module and interfaces for MACs, signatures, and encryptions, and establish their authenticity and secrecy properties. We relate their ideal functionalities and concrete implementations, using game-based program transformations behind typed interfaces. We illustrate our method on a series of protocol implementations.
- 1: Microsoft Research [Cambridge] (Microsoft)
- Microsoft Research
- 2: Microsoft Research - Inria Joint Centre (MSR - INRIA)
- INRIA – Microsoft – Microsoft Research Laboratory Cambridge
- Domain : Computer Science/Cryptography and Security
Computer Science/Computation and Language
Computer Science/Programming Languages - Keywords : Cryptography – Refinement types – Security protocols
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- From: Pierre-Yves Strub
- Submitted on: Tuesday, 8 November 2011 11:19:30
- Updated on: Tuesday, 8 November 2011 11:28:55






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