The IITM Model and its Application to the Analysis of Real-World Security Protocol

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• Ralf Küsters, University of Trier
• Thursday 08 September 2011, 13:30-14:30
• Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

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A prevalent way in cryptography to design and analyze cryptographic protocols in a modular way is the simulation-based approach. Higher-level components of a protocol are designed and analyzed based on lower-level idealized components, called ideal functionalities. Composition theorems then allow to replace the ideal functionalities by their realizations, altogether resulting in a system without idealized components.

In this talk, I first provide some background on the simulation-based approach and then briefly introduce the Inexhaustible Interactive Turing Machine (IITM) model, a model which, compared to other models for simulation-based security, is particularly simple and expressive. Although modularity is key to tame the complexity of real-world security protocol analysis, simulation-based approaches have rarely been used to analyze such protocols. In the past few years, we have developed a framework for the faithful and modular analysis of real-world security protocols based on the IITM model. I will present this framework and also discuss what has hindered the use of the simulation-based approach before.

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