Date of Award

5-2019

Document Type

Thesis open access

Department

Computer Science

First Advisor

Seth Fogarty

Second Advisor

Mark Lewis

Third Advisor

Paul Myers

Abstract

This work serves to explore the use of protocol verification tools, in this case AVISPA and SPAN, to verify a protocol used to establish blockchain identities as well as a protocol used for electronic voting that runs on top of a blockchain, leveraging blockchain as a platform. We explore the protocol verification tools themselves, as well as the modeling languages, CAS+ and HLPSL, used to write protocol specifications for verification by these tools. We determine that it is possible to verify a protocol regarding establishment of blockchain identities as well as that it is not possible to verify protocols which leverage blockchain as a platform, at least with the toolchain used and the CAS+ encoding of the protocol.

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