Abstract
Automatic security protocol analysis is a fruitful research topic that demonstrates the application of formal methods to security analysis. Several endeavors in the last decades successfully verified security properties of large-scale network protocols like TLS, sometimes unveiling unknown vulnerabilities. In this work, we show how to apply these techniques to the domain of IoT, where security is a critical aspect. While most existing security analyses for IoT tackle individually either protocols, firmware or applications, our goal is to treat IoT systems as a whole. We focus our work on a case study, the Armadillo-IoT G4 device, highlighting the specific challenges we must tackle to analyze the security of a typical IoT device. We propose a model using the Tamarin prover, that allows us to state certain key security properties about the device and to prove them automatically.
Lelio Brun
Postdoctoral research scientist in Computer Science
My research interests include synchronous languages, functional programming and verified compilation.