Paper Info
Title
Formally Proved Anti-tearing Properties of Embedded C Code
Abstract
In smart card embedded programs, some operations must not be suddenly interrupted, because if they are, the card is left in an inconsistent state. Since the card can be removed at any time from the terminal, which interrupts any running program, some instructions must be executed at each reset in order to verify if a tearing occurred and to restore a consistent state if necessary. In this case, the card is said to ensure the anti-tearing property. This paper presents a method to formally prove that a C program verifies the anti-tearing property for a given "tearing-sensitive” operation. The back-ground methodology, presented in [1], [2], enables to prove global properties from source code. It is here illustrated by the proof of anti-tearing properties, which requires an extension of the method in order to specify and verify functions behaviour in the case of a sudden interruption of their execution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/ISoLA.2006.14
ISoLA
Keywords
Field
DocType
embedded program,functions behaviour,c code,source code,global property,c program,smart card,back-ground methodology,consistent state,anti-tearing property,inconsistent state,embedded systems,smart cards
BasicCard,Programming language,Card reader,Source code,Computer science,Smart card,Java Card,Answer to reset,OpenPGP card,Smart card application protocol data unit
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.40
6
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
June Andronick190342.66