POPL 2024
Sun 14 - Sat 20 January 2024 London, United Kingdom
Sat 20 Jan 2024 16:22 - 16:45 at Turing Lecture - Session 4 Chair(s): Dominique Devriese

Blockchains facilitate secure resource transactions through smart contracts, yet these digital agreements are prone to vulnerabilities, particularly when interacting with external contracts, leading to substantial monetary losses. Traditional verification techniques fall short in providing comprehensive security assurances, especially against re-entrancy attacks, due to the unavailable implementations of external contracts. This paper introduces an incremental approach: \textit{gradual verification}. We combine static and dynamic verification techniques to enhance security, guarantee soundness and flexibility, and optimize resource usage in smart contract interactions. By implementing a prototype for gradually verifying Algorand smart contracts via the pyTEAL language, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, contributing to the safe and efficient execution of smart contracts.

Sat 20 Jan

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16:00 - 17:30
Session 4PriSC at Turing Lecture
Chair(s): Dominique Devriese KU Leuven
16:00
22m
Talk
Computational-Bounded Robust Compilation and Universally Composable Security
PriSC
Robert Künnemann CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Ethan Cecchetti University of Wisconsin-Madison
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16:22
22m
Talk
Gradual Verification for Smart Contracts
PriSC
Haojia Sun Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Kunal Singh Carnegie Mellon University, Jan-Paul Ramos-Davila Cornell University, Jonathan Aldrich Carnegie Mellon University, Jenna Wise (DiVincenzo) Purdue University
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16:45
22m
Talk
Towards Modular Specification and Verification of Concurrent Hypervisor-based Isolation
PriSC
Hoang-Hai Dang BedRock Systems, David Swasey BedRock Systems, Gregory Malecha BedRock Systems
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17:07
8m
Day closing
Closing Remarks
PriSC
Shweta Shinde ETH Zurich