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Gareth Stockwell
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3ranked-venue papers
0as first author
3since 2021 · last 2024
0009-0004-1773-2846ORCID · corroborated
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Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 3 · 3 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Verifying Components of Arm® Confidential Computing Architecture with ESBMC
Tong Wu 0028, Shale Xiong, Edoardo Manino, Gareth Stockwell, Lucas C. Cordeiro |
SAS | 4 |
| 2023 | A Verification Methodology for the Arm® Confidential Computing Architecture: From a Secure Specification to Safe ImplementationsabstractWe present Arm's efforts in verifying the specification and prototype reference implementation of the Realm Management Monitor (RMM), an essential firmware component of Arm Confidential Computing Architecture (Arm CCA), the recently-announced Confidential Computing technologies incorporated in the Armv9-A architecture. Arm CCA introduced the Realm Management Extension (RME), an architectural extension for Armv9-A, and a technology that will eventually be deployed in hundreds of millions of devices. Given the security-critical nature of the RMM, and its taxing threat model, we use a combination of interactive theorem proving, model checking, and concurrency-aware testing to validate and verify security and safety properties of both the specification and a prototype implementation of the RMM. Crucially, our verification efforts were, and are still being, developed and refined contemporaneously with active development of both specification and implementation, and have been adopted by Arm's product teams. We describe our major achievements, realized through the application of formal techniques, as well as challenges that remain for future work. We believe that the work reported in this paper is the most thorough application of formal techniques to the design and implementation of any current commercially-viable Confidential Computing implementation, setting a new high-water mark for work in this area. Anthony C. J. Fox, Gareth Stockwell, Shale Xiong, Hanno Becker, Dominic P. Mulligan, Gustavo Petri, Nathan Chong |
Proc. ACM Program. Lang. | 2 |
| 2022 | Design and Verification of the Arm Confidential Compute Architecture
Xupeng Li, Xuheng Li, Christoffer Dall, Ronghui Gu, Jason Nieh, Yousuf Sait, Gareth Stockwell |
OSDI | 7 |