Using formal methods to cultivate trust in Smart Card Operating Systems
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چکیده
To be widely accepted, smart cards must contain completely trustworthy software. Because smart cards contain relatively simple computers, and are used only for a speciic class of applications, it is feasible to make the language used to program the software components focused and tiny. Formal methods can be used to precisely specify this language and to reason about properties of the language, which results in more trustworthy software. We explore this process by specifying the core of a proprietary systems programming language for smart card operating systems. We show how the speciication obtained is used in proofs, and in the development of tool support.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Future Generation Comp. Syst.
دوره 13 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996