[Cryptography] Formal Verification (was Re: Trust & randomness in computer systems)

Ray Dillinger bear at sonic.net
Sat Mar 19 17:27:35 EDT 2016



On 03/18/2016 01:24 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 11:45:59AM -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:

>> It does not matter because the specification itself
>> contained a bug.
> 
> There was no bug.  Just verification of a part of a system.  A
> verified wheel on a car does not prevent fatal accidents, but that's
> not a bug a formal verification of wheels.

You're right.  My point was that it is a bug in the formal specification
of cars.  And it's cars whose correctness people rely on.

				Bear



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