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VeriOSS: Using the Blockchain to Foster Bug Bounty Programs

Authors Andrea Canidio , Gabriele Costa , Letterio Galletta

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Andrea Canidio
  • IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
  • INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
Gabriele Costa
  • IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
Letterio Galletta
  • IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy

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This research is partially funded by IMT PAI project "VeriOSS".

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Andrea Canidio, Gabriele Costa, and Letterio Galletta. VeriOSS: Using the Blockchain to Foster Bug Bounty Programs. In 2nd International Conference on Blockchain Economics, Security and Protocols (Tokenomics 2020). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 82, pp. 6:1-6:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.Tokenomics.2020.6

Abstract

Nowadays software is everywhere and this is particularly true for free and open source software (FOSS). Discovering bugs in FOSS projects is of paramount importance and many bug bounty programs attempt to attract skilled analysts by promising rewards. Nevertheless, developing an effective bug bounty program is challenging. As a consequence, many programs fail to support an efficient and fair bug bounty market. In this paper, we present VeriOSS, a novel bug bounty platform. The idea behind VeriOSS is to exploit the blockchain technology to develop a fair and efficient bug bounty market. To this aim, VeriOSS combines formal guarantees and economic incentives to ensure that the bug disclosure is both reliable and convenient for the market actors.

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  • Security and privacy → Software security engineering
  • Software and its engineering → Formal software verification
  • Security and privacy → Economics of security and privacy
Keywords
  • Bug Bounty
  • Decentralized platforms
  • Symbolic-reverse debugging

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