The last mile: High-assurance and high-speed cryptographic implementations

  • Jose Bacelar Almeida
  • , Manuel Barbosa
  • , Gilles Barthe
  • , Benjamin Gregoire
  • , Adrien Koutsos
  • , Vincent Laporte
  • , Tiago Oliveira
  • , Pierre Yves Strub

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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 hand-written assembly. We illustrate our approach using ChaCha20-Poly1305, 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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2020 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages965-982
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9781728134970
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2020 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 18 May 202021 May 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Volume2020-May
ISSN (Print)1081-6011

Conference

Conference41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period18/05/2021/05/20

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