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This paper reports on a project to exercise, evaluate and enhance a methodology for developing high assurance software for an embedded system controller. In this approach, researchers at the National Security Agency capture system requirements precisely and unambiguously through functional specifications in Z. Rockwell Collins then implements these requirements using an integrated, model-based software development approach. The development effort is supported by a tool chain that provides automated code generation and support for formal verification. The specific system is a prototype high speed encryption system, although the controller could be adapted for use in a variety of critical systems in which very high assurance of correctness, reliability, and security or safety properties is essential.
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Hardin, D., Hiratzka, T.D., Johnson, D.R., Wagner, L., Whalen, M. (2009). Development of Security Software: A High Assurance Methodology. In: Breitman, K., Cavalcanti, A. (eds) Formal Methods and Software Engineering. ICFEM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5885. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10373-5_14
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