Tags for Multi-Protocol Authentication

Formal methods have been proved successful in analyzing different kinds of security protocols. They typically formalize and study the security guarantees provided by cryptographic protocols, when executed by a (possibly unbounded) number of different participants. A key problem in applying formal methods to cryptographic protocols, is the study of multi-protocol systems, where different protocols are concurrently executed. This scenario is particularly interesting in a global computing setting, where several different security services coexist and are possibly combined together. In this paper, we discuss how the tagging mechanism presented in [4,5] addresses this issue.