Title
The Last Mile: High-Assurance and High-Speed Cryptographic Implementations.
Abstract
We develop a new approach for building cryptographic implementations. Our approach goes the last mile and delivers assembly code that is provably functionally correct, protected against side-channels, and as efficient as hand-written assembly. We illustrate ur approach using ChaCha20-Poly1305, one of the mandatory ciphersuites in TLS 1.3, and deliver formally verified vectorized implementations which outperform the fastest non-verified code. We realize our approach by combining the Jasmin framework, which offers in a single language features of high-level and low-level programming, and the EasyCrypt proof assistant, which offers a versatile verification infrastructure that supports proofs of functional correctness and equivalence checking. Neither of these tools had been used for functional correctness before. Taken together, these infrastructures empower programmers to develop efficient and verified implementations by game hopping, starting from reference implementations that are proved functionally correct against a specification, and gradually introducing program optimizations that are proved correct by equivalence checking. We also make several contributions of independent interest, including a new and extensible verified compiler for Jasmin, with a richer memory model and support for vectorized instructions, and a new embedding of Jasmin in EasyCrypt.
Year
Venue
DocType
2019
arXiv: Cryptography and Security
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1904.04606
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
José Bacelar Almeida1233.61
Manuel Barbosa233724.91
Gilles Barthe32337152.36
Benjamin Grégoire481748.93
Adrien Koutsos5133.98
Vincent Laporte6364.95
Tiago R. Oliveira73610.45
Pierre-Yves Strub854029.87