An Epistemic Foundation for Authentication Logics (Extended Abstract)

While there have been many attempts, going back to BAN logic, to base reasoning about security protocols on epistemic notions, they have not been all that successful. Arguably, this has been due to the particular logics chosen. We present a simple logic based on the well-understood modal operators o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Joseph Y. Halpern, Ron van der Meyden, Riccardo Pucella
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2017-07-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.08750v1