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Mon 16 Jul 2018 11:50 - 12:30 at Matterhorn II - Track 2

Implementing cryptographic algorithms that do not inadvertently leak secret information is notoriously difficult. Today’s general-purpose programming languages and compilers do not account for data sensitivity; consequently, most real-world crypto code is written in a subset of C intended to predictably run in constant time. This C subset, however, forgoes structured programming as we know it – crypto developers, today, do not have the luxury of if-statements, efficient looping constructs, or procedural abstractions when handling sensitive data. Unsurprisingly, even high-profile libraries, such as OpenSSL, have repeatedly suffered from bugs in such code. In this talk, I will describe FaCT, a new domain-specific language that addresses the challenge of writing constant-time crypto code. With FaCT, developers write crypto code using standard, high-level language constructs; FaCT, in turn, compiles such high-level code into constant-time assembly. FaCT is not a standalone language. Rather, we designed FaCT to be embedded into existing, large projects and language. In this talk, I will describe how we integrated FaCT in several such projects (OpenSSL, libsodium, and mbedtls) and languages (C, Python, and Haskell).

Mon 16 Jul

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11:00 - 12:30
11:00
40m
Talk
Adding kind-polymorphism to the Scala programming language
CurryOn Curry On Talks
Miles Sabin Underscore LLP
11:50
40m
Talk
Constant-time crypto programming with FaCT
CurryOn Curry On Talks
Deian Stefan University of California, San Diego