Modelling and Analysis of Security Protocols - Softcover

Ryan, Peter; Schneider, Steve; Goldsmith, Michael; Lowe, Gavin; Roscoe, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201674718 ISBN 13: 9780201674712

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2000

Synopsis

Security protocols are one of the most critical elements in enabling the secure communication and processing of information, ensuring its confidentiality, integrity, authenticity and availability. These protocols are vulnerable to a host of subtle attacks, so designing protocols to be impervious to such attacks has proved to be extremely challenging and error prone.   This book provides a thorough and detailed understanding of one of the most effective approaches to the design and evaluation of security critical systems, describing the role of security protocols in distributed secure systems and the vulnerabilities to which they are prey.  The authors introduce security protocols, the role they play and the cryptographic mechanisms they employ, and detail their role in security architectures, e-commerce, e-cash etc. Precise characterizations of key concepts in information security, such as confidentiality, authentication and integrity are introduced and a range of tools and techniques are described which will ensure that a protocol guarantees certain security services under appropriate assumptions.   Modeling and Analysis of Security Protocols provides:

• An in-depth discussion of the nature and role of security protocols and their vulnerabilities.
  
• A rigorous framework in which security protocols and properties can be defined in detail.
  
• An understanding of the tools and techniques used to design and evaluate security protocols.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Ryan has over 15 years experience in cryptography and mathematical modelling, computer security and formal methods, gained at GCHQ, CESG, DERA and SRI Cambridge. He is a DERA Fellow, an IMA Fellow and Chair of the Steering Committee of ESORICS. In 1999 he was awarded the title of DERA Fellow.  Steve Schneider is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He has published a large number of journal and conference papers in the areas of concurrency theory and security.  Michael Goldsmith is Managing Director of Formal Systems (Europe) Ltd, the company which developed the FDR tool and devised the techniques described in the book in collaboration with DERA and the University of Oxford. He is a Senior Research Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.  Gavin Lowe is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He was responsible for discovering the attack on the Needham-Schroeder Public-Key protocol, which established the power of the current approach.   Bill Roscoe is Professor of Computing Science at the University of Oxford. He is one of the principal developers of CSP and of its application to cryptoprotocols and other aspects of computer security.

From the Back Cover

Security protocols are one of the most critical elements in enabling the secure communication and processing of information, ensuring its confidentiality, integrity, authenticity and availability. These protocols are vulnerable to a host of subtle attacks, so designing protocols to be impervious to such attacks has proved to be extremely challenging and error prone.

This book provides a thorough and detailed understanding of one of the most effective approaches to the design and evaluation of security critical systems, describing the role of security protocols in distributed secure systems and the vulnerabilities to which they are prey.

The authors introduce security protocols, the role they play and the cryptographic mechanisms they employ, and detail their role in security architectures, e-commerce, e-cash etc. Precise characterizations of key concepts in information security, such as confidentiality, authentication and integrity are introduced and a range of tools and techniques are described which will ensure that a protocol guarantees certain security services under appropriate assumptions.

Modeling and Analysis of Security Protocols provides:

• An in-depth discussion of the nature and role of security protocols and their vulnerabilities.
  
• A rigorous framework in which security protocols and properties can be defined in detail.
  
• An understanding of the tools and techniques used to design and evaluate security protocols.

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201674718
• ISBN 13: 9780201674712
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314