Verification of current-state opacity using Petri nets

Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of current-state opacity of discrete event systems (DES) modeled with Petri nets. A system is said to be current-state opaque if the intruder who only has partial observations on the system's behavior is never able to infer that the current state of the system is within a set of secret states. Based on the notion of basis markings, an efficient approach to verifying current-state opacity in bounded Petri nets is proposed, without computing the whole reachability set or exhaustively enumerating the set of markings consistent with the observation. An example showing the efficiency of the approach is presented.