The applied pi calculus is a language for modelling security protocols. It is an extension of the pi calculus, a language for studying concurrency and process interaction. This chapter presents the applied pi calculus in a tutorial style. It describes reachability, correspondence, and observational equivalence properties, with examples showing how to model secrecy, authentication, and privacy aspects of protocols.
@incollection{2011-Applied-pi-calculus,
author = {Mark D. Ryan and Ben Smyth},
editor = {Véronique Cortier and Steve Kremer},
title = {{Applied pi calculus}},
booktitle = {Formal Models and Techniques for Analyzing Security Protocols},
year = {2011},
month = {March},
chapter = {6},
publisher = {IOS Press},
doi = {10.3233/978-1-60750-714-7-112}
}