Automating Security Protocol Analysis

When Roger Needham and Michael Schroeder first introduced a seemingly secure protocol [24], it took over 18 years to discover that even with the most secure encryption, the conversations using this protocol were still subject to penetration. To date, there is still no one protocol that is accepted for universal use. Because of this, analysis of the protocol outside the encryption is becoming more important. Recent work by Joshua Guttman and others [9] have identified several properties