4 Search Results for "Köcher, Chris"

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.46
{CtChecker}: A Precise, Sound and Efficient Static Analysis for Constant-Time Programming

Authors: Quan Zhou, Sixuan Dang, and Danfeng Zhang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 313, 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)

Abstract
Timing channel attacks are emerging as real-world threats to computer security. In cryptographic systems, an effective countermeasure against timing attacks is the constant-time programming discipline. However, strictly enforcing the discipline manually is both time-consuming and error-prone. While various tools exist for analyzing/verifying constant-time programs, they sacrifice at least one feature among precision, soundness and efficiency. In this paper, we build CtChecker, a sound static analysis for constant-time programming. Under the hood, CtChecker uses a static information flow analysis to identify violations of constant-time discipline. Despite the common wisdom that sound, static information flow analysis lacks precision for real-world applications, we show that by enabling field-sensitivity, context-sensitivity and partial flow-sensitivity, CtChecker reports fewer false positives compared with existing sound tools. Evaluation on real-world cryptographic systems shows that CtChecker analyzes 24K lines of source code in under one minute. Moreover, CtChecker reveals that some repaired code generated by program rewriters supposedly remove timing channels are still not constant-time.
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Quan Zhou, Sixuan Dang, and Danfeng Zhang. {CtChecker}: A Precise, Sound and Efficient Static Analysis for Constant-Time Programming. In 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 313, pp. 46:1-46:26, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{zhou_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.46,
  author =	{Zhou, Quan and Dang, Sixuan and Zhang, Danfeng},
  title =	{{\{CtChecker\}: A Precise, Sound and Efficient Static Analysis for Constant-Time Programming}},
  booktitle =	{38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)},
  pages =	{46:1--46:26},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-341-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{313},
  editor =	{Aldrich, Jonathan and Salvaneschi, Guido},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.46},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208951},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.46},
  annote =	{Keywords: Information flow control, static analysis, side channel, constant-time programming}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2023.15
Regular Separators for VASS Coverability Languages

Authors: Chris Köcher and Georg Zetzsche

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 284, 43rd IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2023)

Abstract
We study regular separators of vector addition systems (VASS, for short) with coverability semantics. A regular language R is a regular separator of languages K and L if K ⊆ R and L ∩ R = ∅. It was shown by Czerwiński, Lasota, Meyer, Muskalla, Kumar, and Saivasan (CONCUR 2018) that it is decidable whether, for two given VASS, there exists a regular separator. In fact, they show that a regular separator exists if and only if the two VASS languages are disjoint. However, they provide a triply exponential upper bound and a doubly exponential lower bound for the size of such separators and leave open which bound is tight. We show that if two VASS have disjoint languages, then there exists a regular separator with at most doubly exponential size. Moreover, we provide tight size bounds for separators in the case of fixed dimensions and unary/binary encodings of updates and NFA/DFA separators. In particular, we settle the aforementioned question. The key ingredient in the upper bound is a structural analysis of separating automata based on the concept of basic separators, which was recently introduced by Czerwiński and the second author. This allows us to determinize (and thus complement) without the powerset construction and avoid one exponential blowup.
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Chris Köcher and Georg Zetzsche. Regular Separators for VASS Coverability Languages. In 43rd IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 284, pp. 15:1-15:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{kocher_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2023.15,
  author =	{K\"{o}cher, Chris and Zetzsche, Georg},
  title =	{{Regular Separators for VASS Coverability Languages}},
  booktitle =	{43rd IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2023)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-304-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{284},
  editor =	{Bouyer, Patricia and Srinivasan, Srikanth},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2023.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-193883},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2023.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Vector Addition System, Separability, Regular Language}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2018.9
The Cayley-Graph of the Queue Monoid: Logic and Decidability

Authors: Faried Abu Zaid and Chris Köcher

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 122, 38th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2018)

Abstract
We investigate the decidability of logical aspects of graphs that arise as Cayley-graphs of the so-called queue monoids. These monoids model the behavior of the classical (reliable) fifo-queues. We answer a question raised by Huschenbett, Kuske, and Zetzsche and prove the decidability of the first-order theory of these graphs with the help of an - at least for the authors - new combination of the well-known method from Ferrante and Rackoff and an automata-based approach. On the other hand, we prove that the monadic second-order of the queue monoid's Cayley-graph is undecidable.
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Faried Abu Zaid and Chris Köcher. The Cayley-Graph of the Queue Monoid: Logic and Decidability. In 38th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 122, pp. 9:1-9:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{abuzaid_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2018.9,
  author =	{Abu Zaid, Faried and K\"{o}cher, Chris},
  title =	{{The Cayley-Graph of the Queue Monoid: Logic and Decidability}},
  booktitle =	{38th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2018)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-093-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{122},
  editor =	{Ganguly, Sumit and Pandya, Paritosh},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2018.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-99088},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2018.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: Queues, Transformation Monoid, Cayley-Graph, Logic, First-Order Theory, MSO Theory, Model Checking}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.45
Rational, Recognizable, and Aperiodic Sets in the Partially Lossy Queue Monoid

Authors: Chris Köcher

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 96, 35th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2018)

Abstract
Partially lossy queue monoids (or plq monoids) model the behavior of queues that can forget arbitrary parts of their content. While many decision problems on recognizable subsets in the plq monoid are decidable, most of them are undecidable if the sets are rational. In particular, in this monoid the classes of rational and recognizable subsets do not coincide. By restricting multiplication and iteration in the construction of rational sets and by allowing complementation we obtain precisely the class of recognizable sets. From these special rational expressions we can obtain an MSO logic describing the recognizable subsets. Moreover, we provide similar results for the class of aperiodic subsets in the plq monoid.
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Chris Köcher. Rational, Recognizable, and Aperiodic Sets in the Partially Lossy Queue Monoid. In 35th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 96, pp. 45:1-45:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{kocher:LIPIcs.STACS.2018.45,
  author =	{K\"{o}cher, Chris},
  title =	{{Rational, Recognizable, and Aperiodic Sets in the Partially Lossy Queue Monoid}},
  booktitle =	{35th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2018)},
  pages =	{45:1--45:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-062-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{96},
  editor =	{Niedermeier, Rolf and Vall\'{e}e, Brigitte},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.45},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-84839},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.45},
  annote =	{Keywords: Partially Lossy Queues, Transformation Monoid, Rational Sets, Recognizable Sets, Aperiodic Sets, MSO logic}
}
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