SPAN can be used in three different modes:
- Protocol simulator: it can simulate by MSC from a HLPSL code.
- Intrusion simulator: simulates a protocol with a passive or active attacker.
- Attack simulator: from outputs of OFMC or CL-ATSE (other tools from AVISPA project).
Installation
Installation is very simple, for Linux and Mac users only need to have installed Tcl/Tk 8.5, then download SPAN software from here and unzip it (for example: /usr/bob/span). Finally, we define two environment variables: SPAN and AVISPA_PACKAGE, for this, open a terminal and type:
export SPAN=/usr/bob/span export AVISPA_PACKAGE=/usr/bob/span
Taking into account that /usr/bob/span is the path where you unzipped SPAN. The program runs as any other script, we should write in a terminal:
./span
If we unzipped SPAN in a folder in your user directory, for example /home/myuser/span/, so, every time you start your machine will have to perform the above procedure. To avoid this, we can make a simple little bash script, for this, create a text file called "start", we can do it with any text editor like gedit or kate, or via command line with vi or nano. On the command line, open a terminal and headed to the path where you have unpacked SPAN (/home/myuser/span/), and write:
cd /home/myuser/span/ # go to the folder nano start # it creates a file called start
Then, we write into the file the following:
#! /bin/bash export SPAN=/home/myuser/span/ export AVISPA_PACKAGE=/home/myuser/span/ ./span exit
To exit from the text editor press CTRL+X and the editor will ask if you want to save the changes, we answer yes. Now all that remains is to give execute permission to the file, then we write:
chmod +x start
Tested by typing:
./start
And ready!
References
- Y. Glouche, T. Genet, O. Heen and O. Courtay A Security Protocol Animator Tool for AVISPA. In ARTIST2 Workshop on Security Specification and Verification of Embedded Systems , pp. 15, Pisa, May 2006.
- http://www.irisa.fr/celtique/genet/span/
