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A Formal Semantics For Protocol Narrations

2006
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Protocol narrations are a widely-used informal means to describe, in an idealistic manner, the functioning of cryptographic protocols as a single intended sequence of cryptographic message exchanges among the protocol’s participants. Protocol narrations have also been informally ”turned into” a number of formal protocol descriptions, e.g., using the spi-calculus. In this paper, we propose a direct formal operational semantics for protocol narrations that fixes a particular and, as we argue, well-motivated interpretation on how the involved protocol participants are supposed to execute. Based on this semantics, we explain and formally justify a natural and precise translation of narrations into spi-calculus. An optimised translation has been implemented in OCaml, and we report on case studies that we have carried out using the tool.

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2006
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Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/8c4e5b8d-d619-4399-af72-3b60a934c355

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A cryptographic protocol is an abstract or concrete protocol that performs a security-related function and applies cryptographic methods, often as sequences of cryptographic primitives. A protocol describes how the algorithms should be used and includes details about data structures and representations, at which point it can be used to implement multiple, interoperable versions of a program. Cryptographic protocols are widely used for secure application-level data transport.

Semantics

Semantics () is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics and computer science. In English, the study of meaning in language has been known by many names that involve the Ancient Greek word σῆμα (sema, "sign, mark, token"). In 1690, a Greek rendering of the term semiotics, the interpretation of signs and symbols, finds an early allusion in John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: The third Branch may be called σημειωτική [simeiotikí, "semiotics"], or the Doctrine of Signs, the most usual whereof being words, it is aptly enough termed also λογικὴ, Logick.

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