Limitations on Design Principles for Public Key Protocols

Abstract

Recent papers have taken a new look at cryptographic protocols from the perspective of proposing design principles. For years the main approach to cryptographic protocols has been logical, and a number of papers have examined the limitations of those logics. This paper takes a similar cautionary look at the design principal approach. Limitations and exceptions are offered on some of the previously given basic design principals. The focus is primarily on public key protocols, especially on the order of signature and encryption. But, other principles are discussed as well. Apparently secure protocols that fail to meet principles are presented. Also presented are new attacks on protocols as well as previously claimed attacks which are not.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA465132

Entities

People

  • Paul Syverson

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accountability
  • Algorithms
  • Asymetric Encryption
  • Coding
  • Collisions
  • Contracts
  • Cryptography
  • Information Operations
  • Military Research
  • Motivation
  • Network Protocols
  • Notation
  • Security
  • Security Protocols
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Systems Analysis and Design