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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Alshehri, Ali | Schneider, Steve; *
Affiliations: Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Steve Schneider, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. E-mail: s.schneider@surrey.ac.uk.
Abstract: Near Field Communication (NFC) is a Radio Frequency (RF) technology that allows data to be exchanged between devices that are in close proximity. An NFC-based mobile coupon (M-coupon) is a coupon that is retrieved by the user from a source such as a newspaper or a smart poster and redeemed afterwards. The M-coupon is a cryptographically secured electronic message with some value stored on user’s mobile. We develop a formal framework for security analysis of NFC mobile coupons protocols using formal methods (CasperFDR). The framework aims to check whether NFC M-coupon protocols address their security requirements. The paper starts with a formal definition of the NFC M-coupon requirements in which can be applied to a variety of protocols. Then, we apply the framework to a quadratic residue-based NFC M-coupon protocol proposed in the literature. The analysis shows an attack against User Authentication property. An additional contribution is that we model the protocol with a challenge of modelling the quadratic residue theorem (QR). We propose two ways of abstracting QR in the model with the pros and cons of both methods. We show how to overcome some limitations of CasperFDR, the protocol analysis tool used, that prevent us from modelling the protocol in a natural way. Moreover, we discuss an interesting observation regarding how found attacks can be affected by a divided long message in CasperFDR.
Keywords: NFC, M-coupon, CasperFDR, formal verification, security protocols
DOI: 10.3233/JCS-150531
Journal: Journal of Computer Security, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 685-707, 2015
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