Unified Program Generation and Verification: A Case Study on Number-Theoretic Transform
Giving correctness assurance to the generated code in the context of generative programming is a poorly explored problem. Such assurance is particularly desired for applications where correctness of the optimized code is far from obvious, such as cryptography.
This work presents a unified approach to program generation and verification, and applies it to an implementation of Number-Theoretic Transform, a key building block in lattice-based cryptography. Our strategy for verification is based on problem decomposition: While we found that an attempt to prove functional correctness of the whole program all at once is intractable, low-level components in the optimized program and its high-level algorithm structure can be separately verified using procedures of appropriate levels of abstraction.
We demonstrate that such a decomposition and subsequent verification of each component are naturally realized in a program-generation approach based on the tagless-final style, leading to an end-to-end functional correctness verification of a highly optimized program.
Wed 11 MayDisplayed time zone: Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo change
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22:00 25mTalk | Generating C: System Description FLOPS 2022 Oleg Kiselyov Tohoku University | ||
22:25 25mTalk | Unified Program Generation and Verification: A Case Study on Number-Theoretic Transform FLOPS 2022 |