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2020-04-03
Fattahi, Jaouhar, Mejri, Mohamed, Pricop, Emil.  2019.  On the Security of Cryptographic Protocols Using the Little Theorem of Witness Functions. 2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE). :1—5.

In this paper, we show how practical the little theorem of witness functions is in detecting security flaws in some categories of cryptographic protocols. We convey a formal analysis of the Needham-Schroeder symmetric-key protocol in the theory of witness functions. We show how it helps to warn about a security vulnerability in a given step of this protocol where the value of security of a sensitive ticket in a sent message unexpectedly decreases compared with its value when received. This vulnerability may be exploited by an intruder to mount a replay attack as described by Denning and Sacco.