1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299271903321

Autore

Giustolisi Rosario

Titolo

Modelling and Verification of Secure Exams / / by Rosario Giustolisi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-67107-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 pages)

Collana

Information Security and Cryptography, , 2197-845X

Disciplina

005.8

Soggetti

Data structures (Computer science)

Information theory

Computer networks

Machine theory

Test-taking skills

Information technology - Management

Data Structures and Information Theory

Computer Communication Networks

Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Revision and Exam

Computer Application in Administrative Data Processing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Preliminaries and Definitions -- Security Requirements -- The Huszti-Pethő Protocol -- The Remark! Internet-Based Exam -- The WATA Family -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book the author introduces a novel approach to securing exam systems. He provides an in-depth understanding, useful for studying the security of exams and similar systems, such as public tenders, personnel selections, project reviews, and conference management systems. After a short chapter that explains the context and objectives of the book, in Chap. 2 the author introduces terminology for exams and the foundations required to formulate their security requirements. He describes the tasks that occur during an exam, taking account of the levels of detail and abstraction of an exam specification and the



threats that arise out of the different exam roles. He also presents a taxonomy that classifies exams by types and categories. Chapter 3 contains formal definitions of the authentication, privacy, and verifiability requirements for exams, a framework based on the applied pi-calculus for the specification of authentication and privacy, and a more abstract approach based on set-theory that enables the specification of verifiability. Chapter 4 describes the Huszti-Pethő protocol in detail and proposes a security enhancement. In Chap. 5 the author details Remark!, a protocol for Internet-based exams, discussing its cryptographic building blocks and some security considerations. Chapter 6 focuses on WATA, a family of computer-assisted exams that employ computer assistance while keeping face-to-face testing. The chapter also introduces formal definitions of accountability requirements and details the analysis of a WATA protocol against such definitions. In Chaps. 4, 5, and 6 the author uses the cryptographic protocol verifier ProVerif for the formal analyses. Finally, the author outlines future work in Chap. 7. The book is valuable for researchers and graduate students in the areas of information security, in particular for people engaged with exams or protocols.