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POPL 2019
Sun 13 - Sat 19 January 2019 Cascais, Portugal
Mon 14 Jan 2019 14:00 - 14:30 at Sala XII - Research Papers: Program Verification Chair(s): Chris Hawblitzel

This paper presents a methodology for generating formally proven equivalence theorems between decompiled x86-64 machine code and big step semantics. These proofs are built on top of two additional contributions. First, a robust and tested formal x86-64 machine model containing small step semantics for 1625 instructions. Second, a decompilation-into-logic methodology supporting both x86-64 assembly and machine code at large scale. This work enables black-box binary verification, i.e., formal verification of a binary where source code is unavailable. As such, it can be applied to safety-critical systems that consist of legacy components, or components whose source code is unavailable due to proprietary reasons. The methodology minimizes the trusted code base by leveraging machine-learned semantics to build a formal machine model. We apply the methodology to several case studies, including binaries that heavily rely on the SSE2 floating-point instruction set, and binaries that are obtained by compiling code that is obtained by inlining assembly into C code.

Mon 14 Jan

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14:00 - 15:30
Research Papers: Program VerificationCPP at Sala XII
Chair(s): Chris Hawblitzel Microsoft Research
14:00
30m
Research paper
Formally Verified Big Step Semantics out of x86-64 Binaries
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Ian Roessle Virginia Tech, USA, Freek Verbeek Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands, Binoy Ravindran Virginia Tech
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14:30
30m
Research paper
Formal Verification of a Program Obfuscation Based on Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic Expressions
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Sandrine Blazy Univ Rennes- IRISA, Rémi Hutin IRISA / ENS Rennes
DOI
15:00
30m
Research paper
From C to Interaction Trees: Specifying, Verifying, and Testing a Networked Server
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Nicolas Koh , Yao Li University of Pennsylvania, Yishuai Li University of Pennsylvania, Li-yao Xia University of Pennsylvania, Lennart Beringer Princeton University, Wolf Honore , William Mansky University of Illinois at Chicago, Benjamin C. Pierce University of Pennsylvania, Steve Zdancewic University of Pennsylvania
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