Technical Reports (CIS)
Document Type
Technical Report
Date of this Version
1-1-2012
Abstract
In recent years, there have been strong interests in the networking community in designing new Internet architectures that provide strong security guarantees. However, none of these proposals back their security claims by formal analysis. In this paper, we use a reduction-based approach to prove the route authenticity property in secure routing protocols. These properties require routes accepted and announced by honest nodes in the network are not tampered with by the adversary. We focus on protocols that rely on layered signatures to provide security: each route announcement is associated with a list of signatures attesting the authenticity of its subpaths. Our approach combines manual proofs with automated analysis. We define several reduction steps to reduce proving route authenticity properties to simple checks that can be automatically done by an automated tool Proverif. We show that our analysis is correct with respect to the trace semantics of the routing protocols.
Recommended Citation
Chen Chen, Limin Jia, Boon Thau Loo, and Wenchao Zhou, "Reduction-Based Security Analysis of Internet Routing Protocols", . January 2012.
Date Posted: 25 July 2012
Comments
University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-12-13.