Mathieu Baudet, Véronique Cortier, and Stéphanie Delaune. YAPA: A generic tool for computing intruder knowledge. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA'09), pp. 148–163, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5595, Springer, Brasília, Brazil, June 2009.
Reasoning about the knowledge of an attacker is a necessary step in many formal analyses of security protocols. In the framework of the applied pi calculus, as in similar languages based on equational logics, knowledge is typically expressed by two relations: deducibility and static equivalence. Several decision procedures have been proposed for these relations under a variety of equational theories. However, each theory has its particular algorithm, and none has been implemented so far.
We provide a generic procedure for deducibility and static equivalence that takes as input any convergent rewrite system. We show that our algorithm covers all the existing decision procedures for convergent theories. We also provide an efficient implementation, and compare it briefly with the more general tool ProVerif.
@inproceedings{BCD-rta09,
abstract = {Reasoning about the knowledge of an attacker is a
necessary step in many formal analyses of security
protocols. In the framework of the applied pi
calculus, as in similar languages based on equational
logics, knowledge is typically expressed by two
relations: deducibility and static equivalence.
Several decision procedures have been proposed for
these relations under a variety of equational
theories. However, each theory has its particular
algorithm, and none has been implemented so~far.\par
We provide a generic procedure for deducibility and
static equivalence that takes as input any convergent
rewrite system. We show that our algorithm covers all
the existing decision procedures for convergent
theories. We also provide an efficient
implementation, and compare it briefly with the more
general tool ProVerif.},
address = {Bras{\'\i}lia, Brazil},
author = {Baudet, Mathieu and Cortier, V{\'e}ronique and
Delaune, St{\'e}phanie},
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{C}onference on {R}ewriting {T}echniques and
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