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Automated Formal Analysis of a Protocol for Secure File Sharing on Untrusted Storage
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DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SP.2008.122008 IEEE Symposium on Security and P ...
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We study formal security properties of a state-of-the-art protocol for secure file sharing on untrusted storage, in the automatic protocol verifier ProVerif. As far as we know, this is the first automated formal analysis of a secure storage protocol. The protocol, designed as the basis for the file system Plutus, features a number of interesting schemes like lazy revocation and key rotation. These schemes improve the protocol's performance, but complicate its security properties. Our analysis clarifies several ambiguities in the design and reveals some unknown attacks on the protocol. We propose corrections, and prove precise security guarantees for the corrected protocol.
Index Terms:
secure storage, lazy revocation, key rotation, cryptographic access control, automatic verification
Citation:
Bruno Blanchet, Avik Chaudhuri, "Automated Formal Analysis of a Protocol for Secure File Sharing on Untrusted Storage," sp, pp.417-431, 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (sp 2008), 2008
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