Visible to the public Specification, Design, and Verification of an Accountability-aware Surveillance Protocol

TitleSpecification, Design, and Verification of an Accountability-aware Surveillance Protocol
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsAntignac, Thibaud, Mukelabai, Mukelabai, Schneider, Gerardo
Conference NameProceedings of the Symposium on Applied Computing
PublisherACM
Conference LocationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-4503-4486-9
Keywordsaccountability, composability, formal verification, Metrics, network accountability, privacy, protocol, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency
Abstract

Though controversial, surveillance activities are more and more performed for security reasons. However, such activities are extremely privacy-intrusive. This is seen as a necessary side-effect to ensure the success of such operations. In this paper, we propose an accountability-aware protocol designed for surveillance purposes. It relies on a strong incentive for a surveillance organisation to register its activity to a data protection authority. We first elicit a list of account-ability requirements, we provide an architecture showing the interaction of the different involved parties, and we propose an accountability-aware protocol which is formally specified in the applied pi calculus. We use the ProVerif tool to automatically verify that the protocol respects confidentiality, integrity and authentication properties.

URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3019612.3019826
DOI10.1145/3019612.3019826
Citation Keyantignac_specification_2017