Formalizing, Verifying and Applying ISA Security Guarantees as Universal Contracts. (arXiv:2306.05128v1 [cs.PL])

Progress has recently been made on specifying instruction set architectures
(ISAs) in executable formalisms rather than through prose. However, to date,
those formal specifications are limited to the functional aspects of the ISA
and do not cover its security guarantees. We present a novel, general method
for formally specifying an ISAs security guarantees to (1) balance the needs of
ISA implementations (hardware) and clients (software), (2) can be
semi-automatically verified to hold for the ISA operational semantics,
producing a high-assurance …

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