Posted Jun 5, 2009 13:26 UTC (Fri) by Thue (subscriber, #14277)
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Google already wrote the automatic prover. Now we just need to write the proof that the automatic prover is correct. Such a proof is written by hand with the current frontier science, and the proof is then checked by an automated proof validator.
I don't see anything here which is not already done today, just on a smaller scale.
Google's Native Client
Posted Jun 10, 2009 15:26 UTC (Wed) by amarjan (guest, #25108)
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What about implementation defects -- say in a given stepping of a particular CPU?
I'm not a low lever programmer so I can't site relevant examples from memory, but I know there have been numerous such defects with security implications over the years.