{"title":"Foundational proof-carrying code","authors":"A. Appel","doi":"10.1109/LICS.2001.932501","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Proof-carrying code is a framework for the mechanical verification of safety properties of machine-language programs, but the problem arises of \"quis custodiat ipsos custodes\" - i.e. who verifies the verifier itself? Foundational proof-carrying code is verification from the smallest possible set of axioms, using the simplest possible verifier and the smallest possible runtime system. I describe many of the mathematical and engineering problems to be solved in the construction of a foundational proof-carrying code system.","PeriodicalId":366313,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 16th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"360","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings 16th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS.2001.932501","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Proof-carrying code is a framework for the mechanical verification of safety properties of machine-language programs, but the problem arises of "quis custodiat ipsos custodes" - i.e. who verifies the verifier itself? Foundational proof-carrying code is verification from the smallest possible set of axioms, using the simplest possible verifier and the smallest possible runtime system. I describe many of the mathematical and engineering problems to be solved in the construction of a foundational proof-carrying code system.