The Formal Method CAPSL Kyle Taylor Zhenxiao Yang

The Formal Method CAPSL

Kyle Taylor

Zhenxiao Yang

CAPSL

Common Authentication Protocol Specification Language

Message list protocol description

•A B: {A, Na}PB

•B A: {Na, Nb}PA

•A B: {Nb}PB

A B

{A, Na}PB

{Na, Nb}PA

{Nb}PB

Overview

CAPSL Notation

Declarations– Imports– Types– Variables– Functions– Constants

Modules– Typespec– Protocol– Environment

Typespec

Introduce New Types Define Functions for a

Type Extend Existing Types Syntax

– Declarations– Axioms

TYPESPEC PPK;IMPORTS SPKE;TYPES PKUser : PrincipalFunctions pk(PKUser): Pkey; sk(PKUser): Pkey, PRIVATE;VARIABLES A: PKUser; X: Field;Axioms ped(sk(A), ped(pk(A), X)) = X; ped(pk(A), ped(sk(A), X)) = X; INVERT ped(pk(A), X): X | sk(A); INVERT ped(sk(A), X): X | pk(A);

Protocol

The Message List Syntax

– Declaration– Assumptions– Messages– Goals

PROTOCOL Simple;

VARIABLES

A, B: Principal;

K: Skey, FRESH, CRYPTO;

F: Field;

ASSUMPTIONS

HOLDS A: B;

MESSAGES

A -> B: {A,K}pk(B);

GOALS

SECRET K;

Protocol Declaration and Assumptions

Declaration– Denotes

Allows a variable to be defined as the value of an expression

Assumptions– Boolean-valued terms or equalities– BELIEVES

Used to indicate a initial belief– HOLDS

Used to indicate knowledge of another entity– KNOWS

Belief plus truth

Example: BELIEVES A : BELIEVES B : HOLDS A : K

Protocol Messages

Message Format– id. sender -> receiver : field, …;

Concatenation of Fields– {,} denotes associative concatenation – [,] denotes non-associative concatenation

Encryption– Built in functions ped(), pk(), se(), sd()– {A, K}pk(B) == ped(pk(B), {A, K})– {X}K == se(K, X) and {X}’K == sd(K, X)

Protocol Messages Continued

Arithmetic– Allows +, -, *, /, and ^ with built in type Skey

%-operator– Distinguishes between the senders and the

receivers view of a message– {A%B, C%D}

Sender constructs {A, C} Receiver constructs {B, D}


Actions– Assignment or comparison test– Assume and Prove

Assumptions and Goals that are associated with intermediate states rather than initial and final states

Phrases– Phrase = message + actions before and after it– “/” used to separate receiver actions from sender

actions A -> B: X; X < Y;/ A -> C: Z;


Subprotocols– A protocol may invoke a different protocol using the

INCLUDE P;– No statements may follow and INCLUDE

Conditional Selection– IF A=B THEN INCLUDE P2;– ELSE INCLUDE P3; ENDIF;

Protocol Goals

States security objectives SECRET V : P1, …

– Variable V is a secret shared only by P1, …

PRECEDES A : B | V1, V2

– If B reaches its final state, it agrees with A on V1, V2

AGREE A, B : V1, … | W1, …– If A and B agree on W1 then they must agree on V1

Environment

Used for setup Syntax

– Declaration– Agent

Define Roles– Exposed

Defines initial knowledge of an attacker

– Axioms Defines assumptions about

constants– Order

Species series parrallel sequencing of agents

ENVIORNMENT Test IMPORTS NSPK; CONSTANTS Alice, Bob: PKUser; Mallory: PKUser, EXPOSED; AGENT A1 HOLDS A = Alice; B = Bob; AGENT B1 HOLDS B = Bob; EXPOSED {Bob}sk(Alice);END;

Needham-Schroeder Public Key Handshake

ENVIORNMENT Test IMPORTS NSPK; CONSTANTS Alice, Bob: PKUser; Mallory: PKUser, EXPOSED; AGENT A1 HOLDS A = Alice; B = Bob; AGENT B1 HOLDS B = Bob; EXPOSED {Bob}sk(Alice);END;

PROTOCOL NSPK;Variables A, B: PKUser; Na, Nb: Nonce, CRYPTO;ASSUMPTIONS HOLDS A: B;MESSAGES A-> B: {A, Na}pk(B); B-> A: {Na, Nb}pk(A); A-> B: {Nb}pk(B);GOALS SECRET Na; SECRET Nb; PRECEDES A: B | Na; PRECEDES B: A | Nb;END;

CIL

CAPSL Intermediate Language Two purposes

– Defines CAPSL Semantics– Interface to tool support

Uses Multiset Term Rewriting Rules

CIL Design

General and Expressive enough to represent a wide range of protocols

At a low enough level to be useful to verification and model checking tools

Represents state-transitions in a pattern-matching style, with symbolic terms to represent encryption and other computations

Rewrite Rules

Rewrite Rules

0 + x -> xs(x) + y -> s(x +y)0 * x -> 0s(x) * y -> y + (x * y)fact(0) -> s(0)fact(s(x)) -> s(x) * fact(x)gcd(0, x) -> xgcd(x, x+y) -> gcd(x, y)

Examples

Fact(s(s(0))))->s(s(0)) * fact(s(0))->s(s(0)) * s(0) * fact(0)->s(s(0)) * s(0) * s(0)->s(s(0)) * s(0) + (0 * s(0))->s(s(0)) * s(0) + 0->s(s(0)) * s(0)->s(s(0)) + (0 * s(s(0)))->s(s(0)) + 0->s(s(0) = 2

s(s(s(0))) = 3

s(0) + (0 * s(0)) ->s(0) + 0->s(0) = 1

gcd(s(s(s(s(0)))), s(s(0)))->gcd(s(s(0)), s(s(0)))->gcd(0, s(s(0)))->s(s(0)) = 2

Multi-Set Rewrite

F1, …, Fk (X1, …, Xm) G1, …, Gn

– i,j Fi and Gj are facts

– Existentially quantified variables are instantiated with fresh (unused) constants

A rule is eligible to fire when the facts on the left side can be matched with facts in the multiset

When a rule fires, facts on the left side of the rule are removed from the multiset and facts on the right side of the rule are inserted into the multiset after being instantiated according to the substitution required by the pattern match.

MSR Example

Rule that defines two new agents– A0(A, B),B0(B)

The message “A B: A, {N}sk(A) results in at least two rules– A0(A,B) (N)A1(A,B,N), M(A, B, { A, {N}sk(A)}

– B0(B), M(X, B, { A, {N}sk(A)}) B1(B, A, N)

Translation Output

Slot Table– Maps each protocol variable to an argument position in the state

predicate of each role Symbol Table

– Contains all identifiers declared in all the specification modules Axioms

– Single list generated form Typespec and Environment Localized Assumptions and Goals

– Axioms localized to a particular state Protocol Rewrite Rules

– MSR rules Environment Information

– CIL AST representation of an Environment

Translation Stages

Parsing– Checks syntax and produces a parse tree

Type Checking– Confirms consistency of type and signature declarations

Syntax Transformations– Syntactical sugar is removed

Rule Generation– Creation of rewrite rules from messages and actions

Local Assertions– Transformation of Assertions from interleaved to Associated

Optimization– Reduces the number or rules and the number of states per role by 50%

CAPSL Example AP1.0

CAPSL Example AP1.0 (cont’d)

PROTOCOL AP10; VARIABLES A, B: Principal; ASSUMPTIONS HOLDS A:B; MESSAGES A -> B: A; END;

CAPSL Example AP2.0


PROTOCOL AP20; VARIABLES A, B: Principal; IP: Field; ASSUMPTIONS HOLDS A: B, IP; MESSAGES A -> B: {A,IP}; END;

CAPSL Example AP3.0


PROTOCOL AP30; VARIABLES A, B: Principal; C: Field; P: Field, CRYPTO; ASSUMPTIONS HOLDS A: B, P; HOLDS B: C; MESSAGES A -> B: {A, P}; B -> A: C;END;

CAPSL Example AP4.0


PROTOCOL AP40; VARIABLES A, B: Principal; R: Nonce; K: Skey; S: Field; ASSUMPTIONS HOLDS A: B, K; HOLDS B: K, S; MESSAGES A -> B: A; B -> A: R; A -> B: {R}K; B -> A: S;END;

CAPSL Example AP5.0


PROTOCOL AP50; VARIABLES A, B: PKUser; R: Nonce; C, S: Field; ASSUMPTIONS HOLDS A: B; HOLDS B: S, C; MESSAGES A -> B: A; B -> A: R; A -> B: {R}sk(A); B -> A: S; A -> B: pk(A); B -> A: C;END;



Tools Support

Translators Connectors Maude, PVS, NRL, etc.

Translator

CAPSL Parser and Type Checker– Checks syntax and type consistency

Rule Generator– Uses maude to generate CIL rewrite rules

CIL Optimizer– Optimizes CIL while preserving behavior

Connectors

Objective– A bridge between CIL and various analyzer tools

Example Connectors– cil2pvs– cil2maude

Maude

Rewriting Logic Interpreter Contains an LTL Model Checker Reflective Computation Through Meta-Level

Modules

Conclusion and Discussions

Good Idea– Unambiguous because of CIL– Simple to describe protocols– Inflexible in that it only specifies protocols– The power of this language is in the tool support– Insightful in the abstraction of the tool support

More Connectors Needed Better documentation of Tool Support MuCAPSL

References

CAPSL Homepage: http://www.csl.sri.com/users/millen/capsl/

G. Denker and J. Millen. CAPSL intermediate language. In N. Heintze and E. Clarke, editor, Workshop on Formal Methods and Security Protocols (FMSP99), Trento, Italy, 1999.

URL: http://www.csl.sri.com/~denker/pub_99.html

G. Denker, J. Millen, and H. Ruess. The CAPSL integrated protocol environment. Technical Report SRI-CSL-2000-02, Oct. 2000.

URL: http://www.csl.sri.com/papers/sri-csl-2000-02/

References

Grit Denker. Design of a CIL connector to maude. In 2000 Workshop on Formal Methods and Computer Security, Chicago, USA, July 2000.

URL: http://www.csl.sri.com/papers/den00

Narciso Mart-Oliet and Jos Meseguer. Rewriting logic: Roadmap and bibliography. Theoretical Computer Science, 285(2):121-154, Aug. 2002.

URL: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/486097.html

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