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A Cryptographically Sound Dolev-Yao Style Security Proof of an Electronic Payment System

Markus Dürmuth
Ph.D. application talk
AG 1, AG 2, AG 3, AG 4, AG 5  
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Date, Time and Location

Friday, 30 September 2005
11:30
30 Minutes
46.1 - MPII
0.24
Saarbrücken

Abstract

We present the first cryptographically sound Dolev-Yao-style security

    proof of a comprehensive electronic payment system.  The payment
    system is a slightly simplified variant of the 3KP payment system
    and comprises a variety of different security requirements ranging
    from basic ones like the impossibility of unauthorized payments to
    more sophisticated properties like disputability.  We show that the
    payment system is secure against arbitrary active attacks, including
    arbitrary concurrent protocol runs and arbitrary manipulation of
    bitstrings within polynomial time if the protocol is implemented using
    provably secure cryptographic primitives.  Although we achieve
    security under cryptographic definitions, our proof does not have to
    deal with probabilistic aspects of cryptography and is hence within
    the scope of current proof tools. The reason is that we exploit a
    recently proposed Dolev-Yao-style cryptographic library with a
    provably secure cryptographic implementation.  Together with
    composition and preservation theorems of the underlying model, this
    allows us to perform the actual proof effort in a deterministic
    setting corresponding to a slightly extended Dolev-Yao model.

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Kerstin Meyer-Ross
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Friederike Gerndt, 09/27/2005 14:32 -- Created document.