A Messy State of the Union: Taming the Composite State Machines of TLS
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 58938661
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1109/SP.2015.39
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- 2015 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
- First page
- 535
- Volume
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- Issue
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- ISSN
- 1081-6011
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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7
- Research group(s)
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C - Foundations of Computation
- Citation count
- 65
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is an influential attack paper and formal verification case study that raised awareness of severe mismanagement in the codebase of several popular TLS/SSL libraries. It led to improvement in several TLS libraries and influenced follow up work such as TLS-attacker by another group. It received a distinguished paper award and was invited to the Communications of the ACM.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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