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Analyzing Fair Exchange Protocols for Secure Transactions

Dive deep into formal protocols, accountability, fairness, and trust in exchange agreements. Discover how trusted third parties play a crucial role in ensuring fairness and resolving disputes in hostile environments. Explore key subprotocols and efficient state enumeration techniques. Learn how to prevent race conditions and attacks, ensuring a secure and abuse-free transaction process. Gain insights into the complexity and challenges of fair exchange protocols.

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Analyzing Fair Exchange Protocols for Secure Transactions

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  1. Analysis of a Fair Exchange Protocol Vitaly Shmatikov John Mitchell Stanford University

  2. Agreement in Hostile Environment • Cannot trust the communication channel • Cannot trust the other party in the protocol • Trusted third party may exist • Last resort: use only if something goes wrong

  3. Contract Signing • Both parties want to sign the contract • Neither wants to commit first Immunity deal

  4. Fairness If A cannot obtain a contract, then B should not be able to obtain a contract, either (and vice versa) Example (Alice buys a house from Bob) If Alice cannot obtain a deed for the property, Bob should not be able to collect Alice’s money

  5. Accountability If trusted party T misbehaves, then honest party should be able to prove T’s misbehavior Example (Alice buys a house from Bob) If escrow service gives Bob Alice’s money without giving Alice the deed, Alice should be able to prove to a judge that escrow service is cheating

  6. Formal Protocol Analysis Informal Protocol Description Formal Protocol Intruder Model Analysis Tool Gee whiz. Looks OK to me.

  7. Murj[Dill et al.] • Describe finite-state system • State variables with initial values • Transition rules • Communication by shared variables • Scalable: choose system size parameters • Specify correctness condition • Automatic exhaustive state enumeration • Hash table to avoid repeating states Success with research, industrial protocol verification

  8. m1 = sigA(PKA, PKB, T, text, hash(RA)) m2 = sigB(m1, hash(RB)) m3 = RA m4 = RB Optimistic Contract Signing [Asokan, Shoup, Waidner] A B m1, RA, m2, RB

  9. Several Forms of Contract • Contract from normal execution • Contract issued by third party • Abort token issued by third party m1, RA, m2, RB sigT(m1, m2) sigT(abort, a1)

  10. Role of Trusted Third Party • T can issue an abort token Promise not to resolve the protocol in the future • T can issue a replacement contract Proof that both parties are committed • T decides whether to abort or resolve on the first-come-first-serve basis • T only gets involved if requested by A or B

  11. m1 = sigA(… hash(RA)) ??? a1=sigA(abort,m1) a2 T resolved? Yes: a2= sigT(m1, m2) No: aborted := true a2= sigT(abort, a1) sigT(m1, m2) OR sigT(abort, a1) Abort Subprotocol A B Network

  12. m1 = sigA(… hash(RA)) m2 = sigB(… hash(RB)) m3 = RA ??? r1= m1, m2 r2 T sigT(m1, m2) aborted? Yes: r2= sigT(abort, a1) No: resolved := true r2= sigT(m1, m2) OR sigT(abort, a1) Resolve Subprotocol Net B A

  13. Race Condition A m1 = sigA(PKA, PKB, T, text, hash(RB)) B m2 = sigB(m1, hash(RB)) a1= sigA(abort, m1) r1= m1, m2 T

  14. m1 = sigA(... hash(RA)) m2 = sigB(m1, hash(RB)) m3 = RA r1 = m1, m2 T r2= sigT(m1, m2) sigT(m1, m2) m1, RA,m2, QB Attack A secret QB, m2 contracts are inconsistent!

  15. Later ... sigA(PKA, PKA, T, text, hash(RA)) sigB(m1, hash(QB)) B RA QB Replay Attack sigA(… hash(RA)) Intruder causes B to commit to old contract with A B A sigB(... hash(RB)) RA RB

  16. Repairing the Protocol m1 = sigA (PKA, PKB, T, text, hash(RA)) m2 = sigB (m1, hash(RB)) A B sigA (, hash(RB)) m3 = RA m4 = RB m1, RA, m2, RB

  17. Another Property: Abuse-Freeness No party should be able to prove that it can solely determine the outcome of the protocol Example (Alice buys a house from Bob) Bob should not be able to show Alice’s offer to Cynthia so that he can convince Cynthia to pay more

  18. Conclusions • Fair exchange protocols are subtle • Correctness conditions are hard to formalize • Unusual constraints on communication channels • Several interdependent subprotocols • Many cases and interleavings • Finite-state tools are useful for case analysis

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