%0 Book Section
%A Boreale, Michele
%A Buscemi, Maria Grazia
%B Proceedings of ACM Symposium in Applied Computing (SAC ’02)
%C Madrid
%D 2002
%F eprints:133
%I ACM Press
%P 281-285
%T Experimenting with STA, a Tool for Automatic Analysis of Security Protocols
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/133/
%X We present STA (Symbolic Trace Analyzer). a tool for the analysis  of security protocols. STA relies on symbolic techniques that avoid  explicit construction of the whole, possibly infinite, state-space of  protocols. This results in accurate protocol modeling, increased  efficiency and mere direct formalization, when compared to finitestate  techniques. We illustrate the use of STA by analyzing the  well-known asymmetric Needham Schroeder protocol. We discuss  the results of this analysis, and contrast them with previous work  based on finite-state model checking.
%Z Primary Classification:  C. Computer Systems Organization  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS  C.2.2 Network Protocols  Subjects: Protocol verification    Additional Classification:  D. Software  D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS  D.4.6 Security and Protection