Compositional security for task-PIOAs

Ran Canetti*, Ling Cheung, Dilsun Kaynar, Nancy Lynch, Olivier Pereira

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Abstract

Task-PIOA is a modeling framework for distributed systems with both probabilistic and nondeterministic behaviors. It is suitable for cryptographic applications because its task-based scheduling mechanism is less powerful than the traditional perfect-information scheduler. Moreover, one can speak of two types of complexity restrictions: time bounds on description of task-PIOAs and time bounds on length of schedules. This distinction, along with the flexibility of nondeterministic specifications, are interesting departures from existing formal frameworks for computational security. The current paper presents a new approximate implementation relation for task-PIOAs. This relation is transitive and is preserved under hiding of external actions. Also, it is shown to be preserved under concurrent composition, with any polynomial number of substitutions. Building upon this foundation, we present the notion of structures, which classifies communications into two categories: those with a distinguisher environment and those with an adversary. We then formulate secure emulation in the spirit of traditional simulation-based security, and a composition theorem follows as a corollary of the composition theorem for the new approximate implementation relation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 20th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, CSFS20
Pages125-139
Number of pages15
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event20th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, CSFS20 - Venice, Italy
Duration: 6 Jul 20078 Jul 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium
ISSN (Print)1940-1434

Conference

Conference20th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, CSFS20
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVenice
Period6/07/078/07/07

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