Formal analysis of QUIC handshake protocol using ProVerif

Jingjing Zhang, Lin Yang, Xianming Gao, Qiang Wang

Abstract: This paper presents a formal analysis of the QUIC protocol. This newly proposed protocol is currently under the process of standardization, and it is still unknown whether the proposed protocol provides the claimed security guarantees. To fill this gap, we model the QUIC handshake protocol in the applied pi calculus and perform a comprehensive formal analysis using ProVerif. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first thorough study on the formal analysis of QUIC handshake protocol.