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PfComp: A Verified Compiler for Packet Filtering Leveraging Binary Decision Diagrams

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Clément Chavanon,

Frédéric Besson,

Tristan NinetAuthors Info & Claims

CPP 2024: Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs

Pages 89 - 102

https://doi.org/10.1145/3636501.3636954

Published: 09 January 2024 Publication History

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We present PfComp, a verified compiler for stateless firewall policies. The policy is first compiled into an intermediate representation taking the form of a binary decision diagram that is optimised in terms of decision nodes. The decision diagram is then compiled into a program. The compiler is proved correct using the Coq proof assistant and extracted into OCaml code. Our preliminary experiments show promising results. The compiler generates code for relatively large firewall policies and the generated code outperforms a sequential evaluation of the policy rules.

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Monniaux D(2024)Pragmatics of formally verified yet efficient static analysis, in particular, for formally verified compilersInternational Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)10.1007/s10009-024-00760-326:4(463-477)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10009-024-00760-3

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CPP 2024: Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs

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Zhang JLiang X(2024)ADLBiLSTM: A Semantic Generation Algorithm for Multi-Grammar Network Access Control PoliciesApplied Sciences10.3390/app1411455514:11(4555)Online publication date: 25-May-2024
https://doi.org/10.3390/app14114555
Monniaux D(2024)Pragmatics of formally verified yet efficient static analysis, in particular, for formally verified compilersInternational Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)10.1007/s10009-024-00760-326:4(463-477)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10009-024-00760-3

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