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Michael McLoughlin
dblp:213/9157
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2ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0003-2347-6258ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
2 papers |
Compilers and program optimization · 87% Program verification · 13% | |
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Cryptographic protocols and secure computation · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cryptographic protocols and secure computation › key management › public key infrastructure
certificate validation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Towards Practical, End-to-End Formally Verified X.509 Certificate Validators with Verdict · USENIX Security Symposium 2025 |
Compilers and program optimization › code generation
instruction selection |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Scaling Instruction-Selection Verification against Authoritative ISA Semantics · Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 2025 |
Compilers and program optimization
verified compilation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Scaling Instruction-Selection Verification against Authoritative ISA Semantics · Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 2025 |
Program verification › system verification
end-to-end verification |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Towards Practical, End-to-End Formally Verified X.509 Certificate Validators with Verdict · USENIX Security Symposium 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
automated verification · 0.9ISA semantics · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Towards Practical, End-to-End Formally Verified X.509 Certificate Validators with Verdict
Zhengyao Lin, Michael McLoughlin, Pratap Singh, Rory Brennan-Jones, Paul Hitchcox, Joshua Gancher, Bryan Parno |
USENIX Security Symposium | 2 |
| 2025 | Scaling Instruction-Selection Verification against Authoritative ISA SemanticsabstractSecure, performant execution of untrusted code—as promised by WebAssembly (Wasm)—requires correct compilation to native code that enforces a sandbox. Errors in instruction selection can undermine the sandbox’s guarantees, but prior verification work struggles to scale to the complexity of realistic industrial compilers. We present Arrival , an instruction-selection verifier for the Cranelift production Wasm-to-native compiler. Arrival enables end-to-end, high-assurance verification while reducing developer effort. Arrival ( 1 ) automatically reasons about chains of instruction-selection rules, thereby reducing the need for develop-er-supplied intermediate specifications, ( 2 ) introduces a lightweight, efficient method for reasoning about stateful instruction-selection rules, and ( 3 ) automatically derives high-assurance machine code specifications. Our work verifies nearly all AArch64 instruction-selection rules reachable from Wasm core. Furthermore, Arrival reduces the developer effort required: 60 % of all specifications benefit from our automation, thereby requiring 2.6 × fewer hand-written specifications than prior approaches. Arrival finds new bugs in Cranelift’s instruction selection, and it is viable for integration into production workflows. Michael McLoughlin, Ashley Sheng, Chris Fallin, Bryan Parno, Fraser Brown, Alexa VanHattum |
Proc. ACM Program. Lang. | 1 |