Re: [SC-L] Provably correct microkernel (seL4)

2009-10-03 Thread Steven M. Christey
I wonder what would happen if somebody offered $1 to the first applied researcher to find a fault or security error. According to http://ertos.nicta.com.au/research/l4.verified/proof.pml, buffer overflows, memory leaks, and other issues are not present. Maybe people would give up if they

Re: [SC-L] Provably correct microkernel (seL4)

2009-10-03 Thread Bobby Miller
I might argue that it may fix problems that aren't fixable otherwise. My experience in this area is very old, but I found that the biggest benefit of formal methods was not so much the proof but the flaws discovered and fixed on the way to the proof. In conclusion, it seems an awful effort to

Re: [SC-L] Provably correct microkernel (seL4)

2009-10-03 Thread Wall, Kevin
Steve Christy wrote... I wonder what would happen if somebody offered $1 to the first applied researcher to find a fault or security error. According to http://ertos.nicta.com.au/research/l4.verified/proof.pml, buffer overflows, memory leaks, and other issues are not present. Maybe

Re: [SC-L] Provably correct microkernel (seL4)

2009-10-03 Thread Chris Wysopal
] On Behalf Of Gunnar Peterson Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 3:21 PM To: Cassidy, Colin (GE Infra, Energy) Cc: Secure Code Mailing List Subject: Re: [SC-L] Provably correct microkernel (seL4) design flaws. So we have only removed 50% of the problem. for my part there have been many, many days when I

Re: [SC-L] Provably correct microkernel (seL4)

2009-10-03 Thread Johan Peeters
It is my understanding that only the micro-kernel runs in kernel mode, but not having read the nitty-gritty either, I'll stand to be corrected. kr, Yo On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Wall, Kevin kevin.w...@qwest.com wrote: Steve Christy wrote... I wonder what would happen if somebody

[SC-L] Provably correct microkernel (seL4)

2009-10-02 Thread Wall, Kevin
Thought there might be several on this list who might appreciate this, at least from a theoretical perspective but had not seen it. (Especially Larry Kilgallen, although he's probably already seen it. :) In http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2009/sep/microkernel_breakthrough.html,

Re: [SC-L] Provably correct microkernel (seL4)

2009-10-02 Thread Cassidy, Colin (GE Infra, Energy)
October 2009 22:34 To: Secure Code Mailing List Subject: [SC-L] Provably correct microkernel (seL4) Thought there might be several on this list who might appreciate this, at least from a theoretical perspective but had not seen it. (Especially Larry Kilgallen, although he's probably already seen

Re: [SC-L] Provably correct microkernel (seL4)

2009-10-02 Thread ljknews
At 4:33 PM -0500 10/1/09, Wall, Kevin wrote: Professor Gernot Heiser, the John Lions Chair in Computer Science in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and a senior principal researcher with NICTA, said for the first time a team had been able to prove with

Re: [SC-L] Provably correct microkernel (seL4)

2009-10-02 Thread Johan Peeters
My $.02... I don't think this approach is going to catch on anytime soon. Spending 30 or so staff years verifying a 7500 line C program is not going to be seen as cost effective by most real-world managers. But interesting research nonetheless. maybe not as crazy as it sounds: this is a micro

Re: [SC-L] Provably correct microkernel (seL4)

2009-10-02 Thread Dimitri DeFigueiredo
-Original Message- From: sc-l-boun...@securecoding.org [mailto:sc-l-boun...@securecoding.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Epstein Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 6:38 AM To: Wall, Kevin Cc: Secure Code Mailing List Subject: Re: [SC-L] Provably correct microkernel (seL4) This was discussed a few months

Re: [SC-L] Provably correct microkernel (seL4)

2009-10-02 Thread Jeremy Epstein
...@securecoding.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Epstein Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 6:38 AM To: Wall, Kevin Cc: Secure Code Mailing List Subject: Re: [SC-L] Provably correct microkernel (seL4) This was discussed a few months ago on several other lists I read. The consensus is that it's interesting

Re: [SC-L] Provably correct microkernel (seL4)

2009-10-02 Thread Gunnar Peterson
design flaws. So we have only removed 50% of the problem. for my part there have been many, many days when I would settle for solving 50% of a problem -gunnar ___ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information,