Robustly Safe Compilation, an Efficient Form of Secure Compilation
Abstract
Security-preserving compilers generate compiled code that withstands target-level attacks such as alteration of control flow, data leaks, or memory corruption. Many existing security-preserving compilers are proven to be fully abstract, meaning that they reflect and preserve observational equivalence. Fully abstract compilation is strong and useful but, in certain cases, comes at the cost of requiring expensive runtime constructs in compiled code. These constructs may have no relevance for security, but are needed to accommodate differences between the source and target languages that fully abstract compilation necessarily needs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Feb 09, 2021
- Source ID
- 10.1145/3436809
Entities
People
- Deepak Garg
- Marco Patrignani
Organizations
- Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space
- Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
- Office of Naval Research
- Stanford University