A Machine-Checked Proof of Security for AWS Key Management Service
José Bacelar Almeida, Manuel Barbosa, Gilles Barthe, Matthew Campagna, Ernie Cohen, Benjamin Grégoire, Vitor Pereira, Bernardo Portela, Pierre-Yves Strub, Serdar Tasiran
Abstract
We present a machine-checked proof of security for the domain management protocol of Amazon Web Services' KMS (Key Management Service) a critical security service used throughout AWS and by AWS customers. Domain management is at the core of AWS KMS; it governs the top-level keys that anchor the security of encryption services at AWS. We show that the protocol securely implements an ideal distributed encryption mechanism under standard cryptographic assumptions. The proof is machine-checked in the EasyCrypt proof assistant and is the largest EasyCrypt development to date. CCS CONCEPTS • Security and privacy → Key management; Logic and verification.
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