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This Paper outlines a logic based formal approach to represent and reason about the DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) protocol. DNSSEC provides security services to the existing DNS protocol mainly through public key cryptography. But, it is well known that even the use of the most perfect cryptographic tools does not always ensure the desired security goals. This situation arises because of logical flaws in the design of protocols. Our aim is to represent and reason about DNSSEC protocol using the Modal Logic system SVO so as to derive the desired goals of the protocol.
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Babu, K.R., Padmanabhan, V., Bhukya, W.N. (2011). Reasoning about DNSSEC. In: Sombattheera, C., Agarwal, A., Udgata, S.K., Lavangnananda, K. (eds) Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence. MIWAI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7080. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25725-4_7
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