A verified, efficient embedding of a verifiable assembly language

Autor: Aseem Rastogi, Bryan Parno, Aymeric Fromherz, Chris Hawblitzel, Nikhil Swamy, Nick Giannarakis
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. 3:1-30
ISSN: 2475-1421
DOI: 10.1145/3290376
Popis: High-performance cryptographic libraries often mix code written in a high-level language with code written in assembly. To support formally verifying the correctness and security of such hybrid programs, this paper presents an embedding of a subset of x64 assembly language in F* that allows efficient verification of both assembly and its interoperation with C code generated from F*. The key idea is to use the computational power of a dependent type system's type checker to run a verified verification-condition generator during type checking. This allows the embedding to customize the verification condition sent by the type checker to an SMT solver. By combining our proof-by-reflection style with SMT solving, we demonstrate improved automation for proving the correctness of assembly-language code. This approach has allowed us to complete the first-ever proof of correctness of an optimized implementation of AES-GCM, a cryptographic routine used by 90% of secure Internet traffic.
Databáze: OpenAIRE