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First Steps Toward a Cryptography-Aware Language and Compiler
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Abstract: | When developing secure, high-performance cryptographic software, the programmer is presented with a wide range of problems. Not only must they be conversant with pertinent scientific results, they must efficiently translate said results into a practical context. Unlike when writing normal programs, they are given little help from either the language or compiler: both are typically too general purpose to offer domain specific optimisation or analysis that would save the programmer time and reduce the potential for error. As a step toward solving this problem we present CAO, a cryptography-aware domain-specific language and associated compiler system. Rather than being a panacea, we pitch CAO as a mechanism for transferring and automating the expert knowledge of cryptographers into a form which is accessible to anyone writing security conscious software. |
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@misc{eprint-2005-12496, title={First Steps Toward a Cryptography-Aware Language and Compiler}, booktitle={IACR Eprint archive}, keywords={implementation /}, url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/160}, note={ page@cs.bris.ac.uk 12936 received 2 Jun 2005}, author={M. Barbosa and R. Noad and Daniel Page and Nigel P. Smart}, year=2005 }