[Cryptography] Has formal verification actually been useful in the real world?
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Sat Mar 11 00:28:18 EST 2017
Has a complete formally verified system been deployed anywhere? Is
there one keeping the electricity grid up? Or a formally verified
browser? Or even software for converting graphics files to images on
the screen so that a broken image will not take control of your computer?
Back in the days of usenet there used to be an old and obscure unix
based usenet browser that would crash on unusual control character
sequences and start executing usenet post text as machine code. Is
there any proof that that cannot happen with unusual html or graphics?
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