Conformance testing of Extensible Authentication Protocol implementations

The paper presents a model-based approach to conformance testing of Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) implementations. Conformance testing is the basic tool to ensure interoperability between implementations of a protocol. Using UniTESK technology allows automating the verification of network...

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Main Authors: A. V. Nikeshin, V. Z. Shnitman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2019-02-01
Series:Труды Института системного программирования РАН
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Online Access:https://ispranproceedings.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/1122
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Summary:The paper presents a model-based approach to conformance testing of Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) implementations. Conformance testing is the basic tool to ensure interoperability between implementations of a protocol. Using UniTESK technology allows automating the verification of network protocols based on their formal models. Additional applying of mutation testing allows evaluating the robustness of the implementations to receive incorrect packets. We applied the test suite to several implementations of EAP and present brief results. This approach has proved to be effective in finding several critical vulnerabilities and other specification deviations in the EAP implementations.
ISSN:2079-8156
2220-6426