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We introduce derailing attacks, a class of blocking attacks on security protocols. As opposed to blunt, low-level attacks such as persistent jamming, derailing only requires a minimal, application-level intervention from the attacker. We give a simple definition of derailing attacks in an abstract formal model, and demonstrate that derailing attacks are viable in practice through examples from two application domains, namely radio-frequency identification and fair exchange protocols.
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We thank Jan Cederquist and Sjouke Mauw for insightful discussions.
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Radomirović, S., Dashti, M.T. (2015). Derailing Attacks. In: Christianson, B., Švenda, P., Matyáš, V., Malcolm, J., Stajano, F., Anderson, J. (eds) Security Protocols XXIII. Security Protocols 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9379. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26096-9_5
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