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A Top-Down Look at a Secure Message

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Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 1999)

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In ongoing work, we are investigating the design of secure distributed implementations of high-level process calculi (in particular, of the join-calculus). We formulate implementations as translations to lower-level languages with cryptographic primitives. Cryptographic protocols are essential components of those translations. In this paper we discuss basic cryptographic protocols for transmitting a single datum from one site to another. We explain some sufficient correctness conditions for these protocols. As an example, we present a simple protocol and a proof of its correctness.

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  1. Bell Labs Research, Lucent Technologies, USA

    Martín Abadi

  2. Microsoft Research, USA

    Cédric Fournet

  3. INRIA Rocquencourt, USA

    Georges Gonthier

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, 600036, India

    C. Pandu Rangan

  2. Institute of Mathematical Sciences C.I.T. Campus, Chennai, 600113, India

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Abadi, M., Fournet, C., Gonthier, G. (1999). A Top-Down Look at a Secure Message. In: Rangan, C.P., Raman, V., Ramanujam, R. (eds) Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. FSTTCS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1738. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46691-6_10

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