kani VS rmc

Compare kani vs rmc and see what are their differences.

rmc

Kani Rust Verifier [Moved to: https://github.com/model-checking/kani] (by model-checking)
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kani rmc
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1,885 195
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9.5 10.0
6 days ago about 2 years ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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kani

Posts with mentions or reviews of kani. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-30.
  • The C Bounded Model Checker: Criminally Underused
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jan 2024
    This is also the backend for Kani - Amazon's formal verification tool for Rust.

    https://github.com/model-checking/kani

  • Boletín AWS Open Source, Christmas Edition
    9 projects | dev.to | 24 Dec 2023
  • The Wizardry Frontier
    2 projects | /r/rust | 10 Dec 2023
    Nice read! Rust has pushed, and will continue to push, the limits of practical, bare metal, memory safe languages. And it's interesting to think about what's next, maybe eventually there will be some form of practical theorem proving "for the masses". Lean 4 looks great and has potential, but it's still mostly a language for mathematicians. There has been some research on AI constructed proofs, which could be the best of both worlds because then the type checker can verify that the AI generated code/proof is indeed correct. Tools like Kani are also a step forward in program correctness.
  • Kani 0.40.0 has been released!
    1 project | /r/KaniRustVerifier | 5 Nov 2023
    Ease setup in Amazon Linux 2 by @adpaco-aws in #2833
  • Kani 0.39.0 has been released!
    1 project | /r/KaniRustVerifier | 21 Oct 2023
    Limit --exclude to workspace packages by @tautschnig in #2808
  • Kani 0.38.0 has been released !
    1 project | /r/KaniRustVerifier | 7 Oct 2023
    Here's a summary of what's new in version 0.38.0:
  • CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in WebP (Chrome)
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2023
    > those applications need the proof for correctness so that more dangerous code---say, what would need `unsafe` in Rust---can be safely added

    There are actually already tools built for this very purpose in Rust (see Kani [1] for instance).

    Formal verification has a serious scaling problem, so forming programs in such a way that there are a few performance-critical areas that use unsafe routines seems like the best route. I feel like Rust leans into this paradigm with `unsafe` blocks.

    [1] - https://github.com/model-checking/kani

  • Kani 0.36.0 has been released!
    1 project | /r/KaniRustVerifier | 9 Sep 2023
    Enable concrete playback for failure of UB checks by @zhassan-aws in https://github.com/model-checking/kani/pull/2727
  • Kani 0.34.0 has been released!
    1 project | /r/KaniRustVerifier | 11 Aug 2023
    Change default solver to CaDiCaL by @celinval in https://github.com/model-checking/kani/pull/2557 By default, Kani will now run CBMC with CaDiCaL, since this solver has outperformed Minisat in most of our benchmarks. User's should still be able to select Minisat (or a different solver) either by using #[solver] harness attribute, or by passing --solver= command line option.
  • Kani 0.33.0 has been released!
    1 project | /r/KaniRustVerifier | 30 Jul 2023
    Add support for sysconf by feliperodri in #2557

rmc

Posts with mentions or reviews of rmc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kani and rmc you can also consider the following projects:

prusti-dev - A static verifier for Rust, based on the Viper verification infrastructure.

awesome-rust-formalized-reasoning - An exhaustive list of all Rust resources regarding automated or semi-automated formalization efforts in any area, constructive mathematics, formal algorithms, and program verification.

MIRAI - Rust mid-level IR Abstract Interpreter

seer - symbolic execution engine for Rust

gdbstub - An ergonomic, featureful, and easy-to-integrate implementation of the GDB Remote Serial Protocol in Rust (with no-compromises #![no_std] support)

lincheck - A linearizability checker for concurrent data structures

watt - Runtime for executing procedural macros as WebAssembly

crucible - Crucible is a library for symbolic simulation of imperative programs

rustig - A tool to detect code paths leading to Rust's panic handler