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Véronique Cortier


Computationally Sound Security Proof using Formal Models

Since the 1980s, two approaches have been developed for analyzing security protocols. One of the approaches relies on a computational model that considers issues of complexity and probability. This approach captures a strong notion of security, guaranteed against all probabilistic polynomial-time attacks. The other approach relies on a symbolic model of protocol executions in which cryptographic primitives are treated as black boxes. Since the seminal work of Dolev and Yao, it has been realized that this latter approach enables significantly simpler and often automated proofs. However, the guarantees that it offers have been quite unclear.

We present two results that show soundness of formal models with respect to computational notions of security. First, we establish that symbolic integrity and secrecy proofs are sound with respect to the computational model in the case of protocols that use signatures and asymmetric encryption. This is a join work with Bogdan Warinschi. Secondly, we study the link between formal and cryptographic models for security protocols in the presence of a passive adversary, for abitrary equational theories. We define a framework for comparing a cryptographic implementation and its idealization w.r.t. various security notions. In particular, we concentrate on the computationnal soundness of static equivalence, a standard tool in cryptographic $\pi$-calculi. This is a join work with Mathieu Baudet and Steve Kremer.