Velisarios: Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Protocols Powered by Coq

Rahli, Vincent; Vukotic, Ivana; Volp, Marcus; Verissimo, Paulo

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Velisarios: Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Protocols Powered by Coq

Rahli, Vincent; Vukotic, Ivana; Volp, Marcus et al.

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Byzantine faults; state machine replication; formal verification; Coq

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[en] Our increasing dependence on complex and critical information infrastructures and the emerging threat of sophisticated attacks, ask for extended efforts to ensure the correctness and security of these systems. Byzantine fault-tolerant state-machine replication (BFT-SMR) provides a way to harden such systems. It ensures that they maintain correctness and availability in an application-agnostic way, provided that the replication protocol is correct and at least n-f out of n replicas survive arbitrary faults. This paper presents Velisarios a logic-of-events based framework implemented in Coq, which we developed to implement and reason about BFT-SMR protocols. As a case study, we present the first machine-checked proof of a crucial safety property of an implementation of the area's reference protocol: PBFT.

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Rahli, Vincent ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT)

Vukotic, Ivana ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT)

Volp, Marcus ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT)

Verissimo, Paulo ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT)

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Velisarios: Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Protocols Powered by Coq

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April 2018

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27th European Symposium on Programming (ESOP)

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FNR8149128 - Strategic Rtnd Program On Information Infrastructure Security And Dependability, 2014 (01/01/2015-31/12/2021) - Marcus Völp

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