Secrecy by typing in security protocols

01 September 1999

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We develop principles and rules for achieving secrecy properties in security protocols. Our approach is based on traditional classification techniques, and extends those techniques to handle concurrent processes that use shared-key cryptography. The rules have the form of typing rules for a basic concurrent language with cryptographic primitives, the spi calculus, They guarantee that, if a protocol typechecks, then it does not leak its secret inputs.