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hacl-star
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One step forward, an easier interoperability between Rust and Haskell | IOG Engineering
Nice work. About cryptonite: have IOG considered using crypto primitives provided by HACL*/evercrypt?
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Let's collect relatively new research programming languages in this thread
Jasmin and F* don't have similar goals, Jasmin is a language designed to precisely express low-level code, while F* is a generalist language for verified programming. There is a subsystem of F* that performs extraction to "readable C code", Karamel (used to be called Kremlin), but you get the usual limitations of C code as a high-level assembler, and also an embedded assembly layer built on Vale. Project Everest therefore generates artifacts that are a mix of C and assembly, rather than a new low-level language design as Jasmin.
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Ten Years of TypeScript
Traditional design by contract checks the contracts at runtime. They can be understood as a form of dynamic typing with quite complicated types, which may be equivalent to refinement types
But you can check contracts at compile time too. It's quite the same thing as static typing with something like refinement types. That's because, while with contracts we can add preconditions like "the size of this array passed as parameter must be a prime number", with refinement types we can define the type of arrays whose size is a prime number, and then have this type as the function argument. (likewise, postconditions can be modeled by the return type of the function)
See for example this Rust library: https://docs.rs/contracts/latest/contracts/
It will by default check the contracts at runtime, but has an option to check them at compile time with https://github.com/facebookexperimental/MIRAI
Now, this Rust library isn't generally understood as creating another type system on top of Rust, but we could do the legwork to develop a type theory that models how it works, and show the equivalence.
Or, another example, Liquid Haskell: https://ucsd-progsys.github.io/liquidhaskell/ it implements a variant of refinement types called liquid types, which is essentially design by contract checked at compile type. In this case, the type theory is already developed. I expect Liquid Haskell to be roughly comparable to Rust's contracts checked by MIRAI.
Now, what we could perhaps say is that refinement types are so powerful that they don't feel like regular types! And, while that's true, there are type systems even more powerful: dependent types used in languages like Coq, Lean and F* to prove mathematical theorems (your type is a theorem, and your code, if it typechecks, is a proof of that theorem).
Dependent types were leveraged to create a verified TLS implementation that mathematically proves the absence of large class of bugs, miTLS https://www.mitls.org/ (they discovered a number of vulnerabilities in TLS implementations and proved that their implementation isn't vulnerable), and HACL* https://github.com/hacl-star/hacl-star a verified crypto implementation used by Firefox and Wireguard. They are part of Project Everest https://project-everest.github.io/ which aims to develop provably secure communications software.
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Securing your crypto wallet in a way that gives respect to what cryptography actually is
With that said, it's a very good thought to make sure that the software you're using is actually secure before trusting it. Personally, I think it's safe to use GnuPG and KeePass/Bitwarden, which have all been audited by the likes of Cure53, but if you're really paranoid, you could always use a formally-verified implementation of your desired algorithm (many are supplied in HACL*, for example)... In this case, I use the term "formally-verified" to mean that the implementation is mathematically proven to guarantee the properties of the algorithm (i.e., there are no "bugs" that affect output at the implementation level)...
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How We Proved the Eth2 Deposit Contract Is Free of Runtime Errors
CompCert is also very impressive. It's not, however, free software / open source (the source is available though)
https://www.absint.com/compcert/structure.htm
A problem with both seL4 and CompCert is that the code written to express the proofs is huge, much larger than code that actually does stuff. This puts a ceiling on the size of the projects we can verify.
F* is a language that tries to address that, by finding proofs with z3, a smt prover; z3 can't prove everything on its own but it cuts down proof code by orders of magnitude. They have written a verified cryptography stack and TLS stack, and want to write a whole verified http stack.
https://www.fstar-lang.org/
https://github.com/project-everest/hacl-star
https://www.mitls.org/
https://project-everest.github.io/
F* (through Low, a verified low-level subset of F) can extract verified code to C, which is kind of the inverse than the seL4 proof: seL4 begins with C code and enriches it with proofs of correctness; hacl* (a verified crypto F* lib) begins with a proven correct F* code and extracts C code (I gather the actual crypto primitives is compiled directly to asm code because C has some problems with constant time stuff). This enables hacl* to make bindings to other languages that can just call C code, like this Rust binding
https://github.com/franziskuskiefer/evercrypt-rust
Also this F* stuff is all free software / open source, so it might become a very prevalent crypto and TLS stack
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Awesome Rust Cryptography list compiled by the Rust Cryptography Interest Group (RCIG)
This is SO exciting!!! Ituses https://github.com/project-everest/hacl-star - a formally verified cryptography library. And it compiles down to C code, so I suppose it's fast.
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Formal is fast: performance analysis and tuning of SPARKNaCl
Whats cool with that project and overlaps with SPARKNaCI would be the HACL* Library. Its purpose is to provide a formally verified library of modern cryptographic algorithms all written in a subset of F* called Low* and compiled to C using a compiler called KreMLin. The outputs of this are already being used Firefox, see here & here.
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A Memory Safe TLS Module for the Apache HTTP Server
Reminds me a little of the Everest project. Sadly, I'm not seeing much recent Everest activity on their web page or github.
hylo
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Vala Programming Language
Or Val[0], now called Hylo (for a good reason), or V[1].
[0] https://www.hylo-lang.org
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Cpp2 and cppfront – An experimental 'C++ syntax 2' and its first compiler
The evolution of C++ has been a multi-decade history of dealing with difficult reality.
I have great hope that Herb can create with his cppfront project “The Very Best of C++” to carry that tremendous legacy forward.
If I was to throw my hat into a “C++ successor”, it would be https://www.hylo-lang.org/ with its “all the safeties” and “tell you when you’re doing it sub-optimal” approach.
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Borrow Checking Hylo [video]
Paper: https://2023.splashcon.org/details/iwaco-2023-papers/5/Borro...
> Hylo is a language for high-level systems programming that promises safety without loss of efficiency. It is based on mutable value semantics, a discipline that emphasizes the independence of values to support local reasoning. The result—in contrast with approaches based on sophisticated aliasing restrictions—is an efficient, expressive language with a simple type system and no need for lifetime annotations.
> Safety guarantees in Hylo programs are verified by an abstract interpreter processing an intermediate representation, Hylo IR, that models lifetime properties with ghost instructions. Further, lifetime constraints are used to eliminate unnecessary memory allocations predictably.
https://www.hylo-lang.org/
https://github.com/Hylo-lang/Hylo
- Hylo a programming language that tries to be safe and fast
- Odin Programming Language
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Why do lifetimes need to be leaky?
A model without lifetimes is also being explored in other languages, e.g. in Hylo. It sacrifices expressiveness, but on the other hand you don't have to deal with explicit lifetimes!
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D Programming Language
Why go through all the trouble when you can do this: https://www.hylo-lang.org/ and not spend a second thinking of lifetimes? No, copies will not be issued unless necessary.
Or why not keep exploring this idea as well? More research-oriented than the first one right now, though, so take it with a grain of salt: https://vale.dev/
- Berry is a ultra-lightweight dynamically typed embedded scripting language
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I've heard that "Rust's borrow checker is necessary to ensure memory safety without a GC" usually also implying it's the only way, but I've done the same without the borrow checker. Am I just clueless/confused?
Get rid of references at the cost of some expressivity (see Hylo, formerly Val)
- Rename 'Val' to 'Hylo'
What are some alternatives?
acsl-by-example - Public snapshots of "ACSL by Example"
carbon-lang - Carbon Language's main repository: documents, design, implementation, and related tools. (NOTE: Carbon Language is experimental; see README)
evercrypt-rust - Rust bindings for HACL & Evercrypt
jakt - The Jakt Programming Language
RCIG_Coordination_Repo - A Coordination repo for all things Rust Cryptography oriented
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
practical-fm - A gently curated list of companies using verification formal methods in industry
vale - Verified Assembly Language for Everest
karamel - KaRaMeL is a tool for extracting low-level F* programs to readable C code
Vale - Compiler for the Vale programming language - http://vale.dev/
MIRAI - Rust mid-level IR Abstract Interpreter
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.