2005 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Intruder Deduction for AC-Like Equational Theories with Homomorphisms
Authors : Pascal Lafourcade, Denis Lugiez, Ralf Treinen
Published in: Term Rewriting and Applications
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Cryptographic protocols are small programs which involve a high level of concurrency and which are difficult to analyze by hand. The most successful methods to verify such protocols rely on rewriting techniques and automated deduction in order to implement or mimic the process calculus describing the protocol execution.
We focus on the intruder deduction problem, that is the vulnerability to passive attacks, in presence of several variants of
AC
-like axioms (from
AC
to Abelian groups, including the theory of
exclusive or
) and homomorphism which are the most frequent axioms arising in cryptographic protocols. Solutions are known for the cases of
exclusive or
, of Abelian groups, and of homomorphism alone. In this paper we address the combination of these
AC
-like theories with the law of homomorphism which leads to much more complex decision problems.
We prove decidability of the intruder deduction problem in all cases considered. Our decision procedure is in EXPTIME, except for a restricted case in which we have been able to get a PTIME decision procedure using a property of one-counter and pushdown automata.