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Formalizing, Verifying and Applying ISA Security Guarantees as Universal Contrac...

The Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is the interface that processor hardware offers to software developers. Current ISAs do not explicitly specify the security properties guaranteed by that interface, so that, for example, rece... ver más

31/08/2027

KU Leuven

2M€

Presupuesto del proyecto: 2M€

Líder del proyecto

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN No se ha especificado una descripción o un objeto social para esta compañía.

TRL 4-5

Financiación concedida El organismo HORIZON EUROPE notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2022-04-01

Línea de financiación objetivo El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:

ERC-2021-STG: ERC STARTING GRANTS

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Duración del proyecto: 64 meses Fecha Inicio: 2022-04-01
Fecha Fin: 2027-08-31

Líder del proyecto

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN

TRL 4-5

Presupuesto del proyecto 2M€

Descripción del proyecto The Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is the interface that processor hardware offers to software developers. Current ISAs do not explicitly specify the security properties guaranteed by that interface, so that, for example, recent severe micro-architectural side-channel vulnerabilities like Spectre did not even violate the specifications. This project proposes a fundamentally new approach to specify ISA security properties by using what we call universal contracts. These are formal contracts in a compositional program logic that automatically hold for arbitrary code. Such contracts capture ISA-enforced upper bounds on the effects of arbitrary (even attacker-controlled) software. While this approach is widely different from traditional specifications, the approach looks extremely promising: universal contracts can be applied to general security primitives, mechanically verified against the ISA's operational semantics and they make it possible to obtain full-system security proofs by manually verifying only the trusted code of a sytem. In this project, we will contribute reusable techniques and tools for applying universal contracts in realistic ISAs. To this end, we will (1) design, prove and evaluate universal contracts for ISAs with state-of-practice security primitives, (2) develop semi-automation machinery for verifying universal contracts of ISAs, (3) extend universal contracts to deal with semantic complications like concurrency or micro-architectural side-channels and (4) design, implement and evaluate techniques which facilitate the construction of trusted software that relies on universal contracts, particularly assembly-level reasoning support and secure compilers. If successful, the project has the potential to fundamentally improve the security foundations of all software-based systems, by (1) clearly dividing the security responsibilities between hardware and software developers and (2) enabling scalable, rigorous, full-system security proofs.

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