cpsa-3.3.1: NEWS

CPSA NEWS

  June, 2016:

* New feature: depth limit.  When a depth limit is specified, analysis of
  skeletons will proceed as long as the skeleton's depth in the search tree
  is below the limit.  Skeletons not analyzed are marked as "(fringe)" to
  indicate the incomplete nature of those branches of the analysis.  Unlike
  hitting a strand bound, the tool does not exit with an error when the depth
  limit is reached.

* IKE_variants.tar.gz added: This is an archive of over 30 variants of
  IKEv1 and IKEv2 protocols modeled in CPSA.  The archive can be found in the
  doc/examples directory.

  February, 2016: CPSA version 3 released to the public.

Version 3 of CPSA is a major update to the tool including many new features.
The most important new features included are:

* Working support for Diffie-Hellman components in protocols, with two
  main restrictions: first, exponent multiplication is modeled but
  exponent addition is not, and second, that "bare" exponents are not
  allowed.  This means that exponents in a role or skeleton must be
  found within an exponentiation, and not directly (e.g. as in a pair
  or encryption).

* Support for protocols that interact with long-term state

* Bidirectional long-term keys, in which the order of the two names is
  ignored.  This more appropriately models shared symmetric keys in a
  setting where participants are not clearly distinguishable as
  clients or servers.

* Numerous declarable constraints that allow a user to more carefully
  limit the tool's search to executions of interest.  Including:
  - inequality of values
  - functional relationships between values
  - a new type of secrecy assumption for potentially leakable long-term secrets

* New, improved documentation.  Included with the release is the CPSA
  manual which thoroughly documents the new and existing features of
  the tool and is also a good starting place for new users.