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Flat and one-variable clauses: Complexity of verifying cryptographic protocols with single blind copying

  • Technical University of Munich

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Abstract

Cryptographic protocols with single blind copying were defined and modeled by Comon and Cortier using the new class C of first order clauses, which extends the Skolem class. They showed its satisfiability problem to be in 3-DEXPTIME. We improve this result by showing that satisfiability for this class is NEXPTIME-complete, using new resolution techniques. We show satisfiability to be DEXPTIME-complete if clauses are Horn, which is what is required for modeling cryptographic protocols. While translation to Horn clauses only gives a DEXPTIME upper bound for the secrecy problem for these protocols, we further show that this secrecy problem is actually DEXPTIME-complete.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLogic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning - 11th International Conference, LPAR 2004, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages79-94
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)3540252363, 9783540252368
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Event11th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning, LPAR 2004 - Montevideo, Uruguay
Duration: 14 Mar 200518 Mar 2005

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3452 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning, LPAR 2004
Country/TerritoryUruguay
CityMontevideo
Period14/03/0518/03/05

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