Resiliency aspects of security protocols

Abstract

Current mainstream work on security protocols usually focuses on achieving one instance of some security property, even when composition of smaller components is used in the design. This paper, instead, advocates special attention to internal components and the environment of security protocols in order to implement extra instances of the same security property. These multiple instances would be able to maintain the security property even if one or more of them failed under the attack of an adversary, providing a degrading path for the protocol assurances instead of the usual catastrophic failure. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.