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POPL 2021
Sun 17 - Fri 22 January 2021 Online
Sun 17 Jan 2021 19:36 - 19:54 at PriSC - Formal analysis & proof techniques Chair(s): Marco Patrignani, Jonathan Protzenko

Secure applications implement software protections against side-channel and physical attacks. Such protections are meaningful at machine code or micro-architectural level, but they typically do not carry observable semantics at source level. To prevent optimizing compilers from altering the protection, security engineers embed input/output side-effects into the protection. These side-effects are error-prone and compiler-dependent, and the current practice involves analyzing the generated machine code to make sure security or privacy properties are still enforced. Vu et al. recently demonstrated how to automate the insertion of volatile side-effects in a compiler, but these may be too expensive in fined-grained protections such as control-flow integrity. We introduce observations of the program state that are intrinsic to the correct execution of security protections, along with means to specify and preserve observations across the compilation flow. Such observations complement the traditional input/output-preservation contract of compilers. We show how to guarantee their preservation without modifying compilation passes and with as little performance impact as possible. We validate our approach on a range of benchmarks, expressing the secure compilation of these applications in terms of observations to be made at specific program points.

Sun 17 Jan

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19:00 - 20:30
Formal analysis & proof techniquesPriSC at PriSC
Chair(s): Marco Patrignani Stanford University, USA / CISPA, Germany, Jonathan Protzenko Microsoft Research, Redmond
19:00
18m
Talk
Nanopass Back-Translation of Multiple Traces for Secure Compilation Proofs
PriSC
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19:18
18m
Talk
Explicit Leakage: Handling Side-Channel Behavior in Program Rewriting and Analysis
PriSC
Marc Gourjon Hamburg University of Technology and NXP Semiconductors Germany GmbH
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19:36
18m
Talk
Secure Optimization Through Opaque Observations
PriSC
Son Tuan Vu Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, LIP6, Albert Cohen Google, Karine Heydemann Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, LIP6, Arnaud de Grandmaison ARM, Christophe Guillon STMicroelectronics
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19:54
18m
Talk
The Fox and the Hound: Comparing Fully Abstract and Robust Compilation
PriSC
Carmine Abate Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Bochum, Germany, Matteo Busi Università di Pisa - Dipartimento di Informatica
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20:12
18m
Talk
Toward Complete Stack Safety for Capability Machines
PriSC
Aina Linn Georges Aarhus University, Armaël Guéneau Aarhus University, Alix Trieu Aarhus University, Lars Birkedal Aarhus University
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