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Publicações por José Bacelar Almeida

2019

Some Applications of the Formalization of the Pumping Lemma for Context-Free Languages

Autores
Ramos, MVM; Almeida, JCB; Moreira, N; de Queiroz, RJGB;

Publicação
ELECTRONIC NOTES IN THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE

Abstract
Context-free languages are highly important in computer language processing technology as well as in formal language theory. The Pumping Lemma for Context-Free Languages states a property that is valid for all context-free languages, which makes it a tool for showing the existence of non-context-free languages. This paper presents a formalization, extending the previously formalized Lemma, of the fact that several well-known languages are not context-free. Moreover, we build on those results to construct a formal proof of the well-known property that context-free languages are not closed under intersection. All the formalization has been mechanized in the Coq proof assistant.

2019

A Machine-Checked Proof of Security for AWS Key Management Service

Autores
Almeida, JB; Barbosa, M; Barthe, G; Campagna, M; Cohen, E; Gregoire, B; Pereira, V; Portela, B; Strub, PY; Tasiran, S;

Publicação
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2019 ACM SIGSAC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY (CCS'19)

Abstract
We present a machine-checked proof of security for the domain management protocol of Amazon Web Services' KMS (Key Management Service) a critical security service used throughout AWS and by AWS customers. Domain management is at the core of AWS KMS; it governs the top-level keys that anchor the security of encryption services at AWS. We show that the protocol securely implements an ideal distributed encryption mechanism under standard cryptographic assumptions. The proof is machine-checked in the EasyCrypt proof assistant and is the largest EasyCrypt development to date.

2020

The Last Mile: High-Assurance and High-Speed Cryptographic Implementations

Autores
Almeida, JB; Barbosa, M; Barthe, G; Grégoire, B; Koutsos, A; Laporte, V; Oliveira, T; Strub, PY;

Publicação
2020 IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON SECURITY AND PRIVACY (SP 2020)

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 handwritten assembly. We illustrate our approach using ChaCha20Poly1305, one of the two ciphersuites recommended 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.

2019

Machine-Checked Proofs for Cryptographic Standards Indifferentiability of SPONGE and Secure High-Assurance Implementations of SHA-3

Autores
Almeida, JB; Baritel Ruet, C; Barbosa, M; Barthe, G; Dupressoir, F; Grégoire, B; Laporte, V; Oliveira, T; Stoughton, A; Strub, PY;

Publicação
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2019 ACM SIGSAC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY (CCS'19)

Abstract
We present a high-assurance and high-speed implementation of the SHA-3 hash function. Our implementation is written in the Jasmin programming language, and is formally verified for functional correctness, provable security and timing attack resistance in the EasyCrypt proof assistant. Our implementation is the first to achieve simultaneously the four desirable properties (efficiency, correctness, provable security, and side-channel protection) for a non-trivial cryptographic primitive. Concretely, our mechanized proofs show that: 1) the SHA-3 hash function is indifferentiable from a random oracle, and thus is resistant against collision, first and second preimage attacks; 2) the SHA-3 hash function is correctly implemented by a vectorized x86 implementation. Furthermore, the implementation is provably protected against timing attacks in an idealized model of timing leaks. The proofs include new EasyCrypt libraries of independent interest for programmable random oracles and modular indifferentiability proofs.

2020

Certified Compilation for Cryptography: Extended x86 Instructions and Constant-Time Verification

Autores
Almeida, JB; Barbosa, M; Barthe, G; Laporte, V; Oliveira, T;

Publicação
INDOCRYPT

Abstract
We present a new tool for the generation and verification of high-assurance high-speed machine-level cryptography implementations: a certified C compiler supporting instruction extensions to the x86. We demonstrate the practical applicability of our tool by incorporating it into supercop: a toolkit for measuring the performance of cryptographic software, which includes over 2000 different implementations. We show i. that the coverage of x86 implementations in supercop increases significantly due to the added support of instruction extensions via intrinsics and ii. that the obtained verifiably correct implementations are much closer in performance to unverified ones. We extend our compiler with a specialized type system that acts at pre-assembly level; this is the first constant-time verifier that can deal with extended instruction sets. We confirm that, by using instruction extensions, the performance penalty for verifiably constant-time code can be greatly reduced.

2022

A formal treatment of the role of verified compilers in secure computation

Autores
Almeida, JCB; Barbosa, M; Barthe, G; Pacheco, H; Pereira, V; Portela, B;

Publicação
JOURNAL OF LOGICAL AND ALGEBRAIC METHODS IN PROGRAMMING

Abstract
Secure multiparty computation (SMC) allows for complex computations over encrypted data. Privacy concerns for cloud applications makes this a highly desired technology and recent performance improvements show that it is practical. To make SMC accessible to non-experts and empower its use in varied applications, many domain-specific compilers are being proposed.We review the role of these compilers and provide a formal treatment of the core steps that they perform to bridge the abstraction gap between high-level ideal specifications and efficient SMC protocols. Our abstract framework bridges this secure compilation problem across two dimensions: 1) language-based source- to target-level semantic and efficiency gaps, and 2) cryptographic ideal- to real-world security gaps. We link the former to the setting of certified compilation, paving the way to leverage long-run efforts such as CompCert in future SMC compilers. Security is framed in the standard cryptographic sense. Our results are supported by a machine-checked formalisation carried out in EasyCrypt.

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