Chatzikokolakis, K., Norman, G. and Parker, D. (2009) Bisimulation for demonic schedulers. In: De Alfaro, L. (ed.) Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures: 12th International Conference, FOSSACS 2009, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2009, York, UK, March 22-29, 2009. Proceedings. Series: Lecture notes in computer science (5504). Springer, pp. 318-332. ISBN 9783642005961 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-00596-1_23)
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Abstract
Bisimulation between processes has been proven a successful method for formalizing security properties. We argue that in certain cases, a scheduler that has full information on the process and collaborates with the attacker can allow him to distinguish two processes even though they are bisimilar. This phenomenon is related to the issue that bisimilarity is not preserved by refinement. As a solution, we introduce a finer variant of bisimulation in which processes are required to simulate each other under the “same” scheduler. We formalize this notion in a variant of CCS with explicit schedulers and show that this new bisimilarity can be characterized by a refinement-preserving traditional bisimilarity. Using a third characterization of this equivalence, we show how to verify it for finite systems. We then apply the new equivalence to anonymity and show that it implies strong probabilistic anonymity, while the traditional bisimulation does not. Finally, to illustrate the usefulness of our approach, we perform a compositional analysis of the Dining Cryptographers with a non-deterministic order of announcements and for an arbitrary number of cryptographers.
| Item Type: | Book Sections |
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| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Norman, Dr Gethin |
| Authors: | Chatzikokolakis, K., Norman, G., and Parker, D. |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| ISBN: | 9783642005961 |
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